Babies born as premature infants are slower to reach their corrected growth percentile. Some mothers prefer their own breast milk, some mothers choose to use formula, while other mothers are unable to produce their own breast milk, so they use donor breast milk. In the paper we will present our findings from research and look into the differences mainly between a mother’s own breast milk and formula, but also compare those to donor breast milk as well. The focus of this influence paper is to answer the following question; in premature infants how does formula bottle feeding compare to pumped breast milk to influence healthy weight gain and adequate nutrition intake over the first year of life?

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