3.3B - Nutritional Requirements for low birthweight infants

Question 1

EXAM

Understanding the importance in relation to the small/and or preterm infant

Answer 1

• premature infancts poorer stores of macronutrients and micronutrients
• requirement is higher for the preterm infanct than term
• Breastfeeding is preferred - long term nuerodevelopmental outcomes
• midwife help with expressing
• meeting the nutritional needs of the preterm is required early and with the adequate amount
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Question 2

EXAM

Review breastfeeding physiology

Answer 2

• breast milk contains unique living fluid
• anti-infective factors
• hormones
• enzymes
• specialised growth factors
• anti-inflammatory mediators
• specific nutrients
• colostrum is a high density low-volumne feed high in immunoglobulins
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Question 3

Review breastfeeding physiology

Answer 3

Main hormones
Prolactin - anterior pituary gland
oxycotin - posterior pituary gland
Feedback inhibitor of latation - produced in the breast
progesterone - placenta
oestrogen - placenta
Human placental lacatogen - placenta
insulin and cortisol - required for milk systhesis