PUBLICATIONS

Recent Publications

• Growth trajectories and need for oral feeding support among infants with neonatal encephalopathy treated with therapeutic hypothermia May 3, 2024
  CONCLUSION: Infants with neonatal encephalopathy-even if mild-frequently experience feeding difficulties during initial hospitalization. With support, most achieve full oral feeds by discharge and adequate early childhood growth. Clinical factors may help identify infants requiring feeding support, but do not detect all at-risk infants, supporting routine screening of this high-risk population.
  Jennifer Prial
• Human Milk Oligosaccharides, Growth, and Body Composition in Very Preterm Infants April 27, 2024
  Human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs) are bioactive factors that benefit neonatal health, but little is known about effects on growth in very preterm infants (
  Margaret L Ong
• Delivering on the Promise of Human Milk for Extremely Preterm Infants in the NICU January 30, 2024
  No abstract
  Mandy Brown Belfort
• Lactoferrin intake from maternal milk during the neonatal hospitalization and early brain development among preterm infants January 9, 2024
  CONCLUSION: Higher lactoferrin exposure during the neonatal hospitalization was associated with larger total brain and gray matter volumes, suggesting that lactoferrin may have potential as a dietary supplement to enhance brain growth in the neonatal intensive care unit setting.
  Agata M P Atayde
• Sooner Is Better: Early Human Milk Fortification for Hospitalized Preterm Infants <29 Weeks August 8, 2023
  No abstract
  Mandy Brown Belfort
• Growth Velocities Across Distinct Early Life Windows and Child Cognition: Insights from a Contemporary US Cohort August 4, 2023
  CONCLUSIONS: Among generally well-nourished children, there might not be clear cognitive gains with faster linear growth except for those with lower birthweight-for-gestational age, revealing the potential importance of early infancy compensatory growth.
  Yi Ying Ong
• Human Milk Fortification for Very Preterm Infants: Toward Optimal Nutrient Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Growth, and Long-Term Outcomes August 3, 2023
  Human milk is the preferred diet for very preterm infants due to short-term and long-term benefits for health and neurodevelopment. Fortification of human milk is required to deliver sufficient nutrients to attain recommended growth targets during the neonatal hospitalization. Intrinsic variability in human milk composition poses a challenge in clinical practice because some infants fail […]
  Saharnaz Talebiyan
• ECI Biocommentary: Katherine Bell June 14, 2023
  No abstract
  Katherine A Bell
• Infant factors that impact the ecology of human milk secretion and composition-a report from "Breastmilk Ecology: Genesis of Infant Nutrition (BEGIN)" Working Group 3 May 12, 2023
  Infants drive many lactation processes and contribute to the changing composition of human milk through multiple mechanisms. This review addresses the major topics of milk removal; chemosensory ecology for the parent-infant dyad; the infant's inputs into the composition of the human milk microbiome; and the impact of disruptions in gestation on the ecology of fetal […]
  Nancy F Krebs
• The Influence of Oligosaccharides when Measuring Lactose and Total Carbohydrates in Human Milk and Comparison of Methods May 6, 2023
  CONCLUSIONS: AOAC methods 984.22 and 2006.06 are comparable for measuring lactose in human milk and are not influenced by HMOs. HMOs influence other enzymatic methods as well as infrared analysis, which leads to an overestimate of energy values. J Nutr 2023;x:xx.
  Sydney McCune