Most
mothers of term infants report that they are glad their pregnancy is over; however, mothers of premature babies often mourn the end of their pregnancy.
Although this relationship does exist, as a whole, parents of preterm infants only experience slightly more stress than
parents of term infants on this measure.
Makrides, M., Gibson, R. A., Udell, T., and Ried, K. Supplementation of infant formula with long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids does not influence the
growth of term infants.
The findings in this study may also apply to
moms of term infants who pump their milk or who have a low milk supply.
Tongue movement and intra-oral
vacuum of term infants during breastfeeding and feeding from an experimental teat that released milk under vacuum only.
Visual acuity and fatty acid
status of term infants fed human milk and formulas with and without docosahexanoate and arachidonate from egg yolk lecithin
The
chances of a term infant being harmed by a single correctly prepared bottle of formula are somewhere between incredibly minuscule and zero.
In addition, only about two -
thirds of term infants nationwide are placed on their backs to sleep, and the rate is even lower among preterm infants.
Pooled donor milk, which is a collection of stored milk from multiple donor mothers, can be of two types: from
mothers of term infants or from mothers of premature infants.
Putting the omission of infants with congenital anomalies aside, we should also consider the possibility that the finding that parents of preterm infants experience only slightly more stress than
parents of term infants is an artifact of the instrument used to measure parental stress.