Optimizing the Use of Human Milk Cream Supplement in Very Preterm Infants: Growth and Cost Outcomes

Background An exclusive human milk–based diet has been shown to decrease necrotizing enterocolitis and improve outcomes for infants ≤1250 g birth weight. Studies have shown that infants who received an exclusive human milk diet with a donor‐human milk–derived cream supplement (cream) had improved weight and length velocity when the cream was added to mother's own milk or donor‐human milk when energy was <20 kcal/oz using a human milk...