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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Annie and I chose this topic because it was something that we have thought about and wondered about before. As a woman I have always thought breastfeeding was a beautiful thing and often heard about mothers that had difficulties with it. I wondered how the alternatives to breast milk compared to it and we thought that it would be the perfect topic for this paper.
We learned how to find articles that met up to verification standards and that had information that would specifically apply to our topic and question. We then analyzed the journal articles and pulled the most important and relevant information from all of the research and were able to compare outcomes from each source.
Working in a team was great because we split the work perfectly and really bounced ideas off each other in order to write the best paper we could. We worked really well at reminding each other about due dates and reminding each other what sections of the work each of us needed to complete and it was always so respected both ways.
For our topic, we were interested in studying the differences between formula feeding and pumped breast milk feeding when providing nutrition to premature infants. After researching our topic we realized that the bigger topic of discussion is how donor breast milk performs when put up against a mother’s own breast milk or formula feeding. These findings did not change our assumptions, but they did open our eyes to a problem mothers are currently facing if they are unable to produce breast milk or if the infants lost their mother. I think this topic is really important and interesting to study because mainstream media is never focused on helping new mothers out and they often feel lost and ostracized. This research can help put some mothers’ minds at ease if it is proven that donor breast milk helps the premature infants just as much as the other two options. My teammate and I work very well together and have gone through some tough things including sickness and have managed to stay on track.
We revised it a small amount and changed it from bottle feeding to formula feeding to use the correct terminology and changed it from breastfeeding to pumped breast milk. We also switched it from measuring the babies’ nutrition to measuring adequate nutrition intake to make it more specific. Some challenges that I experienced were that I am very used to finding research articles to back scientific theses and not for PICOT questions. I was finding articles that were not specific enough for evidence based practice. I understand this concept a lot more now about how the articles need to specifically back up the topic that you are researching for it to be considered evidence based practice. We solved the problem by communicating with each other and with our professor to figure out where we were going wrong with our searches. Some successes our team has experienced is that Annie and I work really well together and come up with great ideas. We both think that this topic is really interesting and are excited to see how we can formulate our paper based off of the research from the three articles.
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