Literature Review On Oral Feeding

1990 - Infant Health and Development Programme, helps to teach maternal mothers the importance of proper diet to low-weight newborns. This brings light to the connection between proper physical and mental health.

There are more than 70% of premature babies that are born between 34 and 36 weeks gestation a year. When a baby is born early, or born with birth defects, the Neonatal Intensive Care unit is its first home. The nurse’s in the NICU have the difficult job of preparing baby’s and parents for a health life together. A baby who has been put into the NICU will stay there until it is healthy enough to go home.

Since the beginning of time, the birth of a baby was a sign of a new life, and within today’s society, many of those lives start within a hospital with the assistance of different medical staff. Now, every family and parent is different in regards to the upbringing of their future child well before their birth, and in order to protect and support this idea; different programs were established within Canada. The Canadian Prenatal Nutrition Program which was established in 1995 can be considered one, as they work to provide support to the health and wellbeing of pregnant women within different communities. Within their program some prominent goals mentioned are: to improve maternal-infant health, increase birth weight rate, and promote breastfeeding

more beneficial for infants than formula? The evidence that is available implies that the WIC

closeness with her newborn” (United Sates 3). With all of these proven health benefits, there is

During the second stage, from around 8 months, we can then plan to introduce the child to more of finger foods to develop the taste even further. It is at this stage when we could also allow the child to 'take charge' and 'play' with food. We would need to consult with the main care giver in order to establish a positive connection between the child and food and keep meal times interesting and stress free for parent and baby. At this stage it is important that we reduce the use of bottles and instead provide foods from all the food

Premature babies typically have underdeveloped respiratory systems and problems maintaining body heat, so they may be kept on a respirator or in an incubator. Although the neonatal period is the first month after birth, these nurses often care for children up to age 2 who have long-term medical issues. While their primary focus is the health of the babies, neonatal nurses obviously will spend a lot of time with anxious parents who are visiting their children in the NICU and must be able to calmly and clearly explain the babies illnesses and treatment, as well as involve the parents in their

The APN leader interviewed for this paper is a Board Certified Nurse Practitioner (CNP), Chery Arnett works in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for Memorial Hospital of Carbondale. She began as a registered nurse in 1981, then in 2001earned her CNP title. She manages and cares for the ill neonate, collaborates with Neonatologist and Pediatricians to improve overall health outcomes. She provides support and assists ventilation, assists with deliveries both “normal” and high risk infants, provides care for the healthy newborns, also providing guidance to parents for caring for the “neonate” or healthy newborns. She is also responsible for assessments, orders, treatment plans, medications, and discharge of the infant. CNP’s provide initial, ongoing and comprehensive care, including managing patients with acute and chronic illness and diseases for both premature infants and term infants.

This research is being submitted on June 9, 2013, for LeeAnn Wisnowski NU205/HUN2202 Human Nutrition in Nursing course.

Healthy term infants are able to dictate their frequency of feeding and the amount of milk intake. This is primarily dictated by the infant's appetite. Preterm infants, on the other hand, may not typically be able to dictate the frequency and amount of milk intake. In most instances, preterm infants are fed at scheduled intervals and making use of prescribed milk volumes. The main reason behind scheduled feeding, without regard for the child's sleep or hunger status, is the concern about the infant's metabolic, neurodevelopmental, as well as gastrointestinal, maturity. However, it is evident that preterm infants are also capable of self-regulating their milk intake. While hunger cues may be difficult to detect in preterm infants, there is sufficient evident for mothers and caregivers to identify and respond to such cues. This paper will examine and analyze the experience of policy development on cue-based feeding in preterm infants. Cue-based feeding is a formidable feeding strategy in preterm infants (Chang & Chen, 2004).

Ricci, S. Kyle, T. and Carman, S. (2017). Maternity and pediatric nursing 3rd ed. Philadelphia:

I chose to read, Baby-led Weaning: the essential guide to introducing solid foods and helping your baby to grow up a happy and confident eater by Gill Rapley and Tracey Murkett for my parenting book report. Baby-led weaning (BLW) is essentially giving the baby the control to choose when, how, and what they want to eat. According to the authors BLW has many benefits that include: its enjoyable for both parents and babies, its natural, babies learn about foods, learn how to eat safely, learning about the world, reaching their potential with hand eye coordination, gives babies confidence to make their own decisions, trusting food, allows babies to be apart of family meals, helps with appetite control, better nutrition, long-term health, learning

To ease the transition through this turbulent period, the newborn needs to be provided with easily digestible and bioavailable nutrition in the form of breast milk or infant formula. The infant depends on a diet of closely regulated composition and does not achieve nutritional independence until weaning.

The nurse would want to ensure adequate nutrition for the baby and preventing aspiration or infection

Firstly, there is an array of knowledge that the neonatal nurse must attain before being competent to practice as a NICU nurse. Primarily having an understanding the anatomy and physiology of a preterm infant is key. Preterm infants present completely different than other patients, as they do not have the same body mechanisms as a fully developed individual (Drozdowicz & Dillard, 2014). These