Colostrum and Reduced Time to Initiate Oral Feeding

• Impact of colostrum combined with non-nutritive sucking in non-invasive ventilated very low birth weight preterm infant.

  • 2025-10-02
  • Observational · n = 163
  • BMC pediatrics 25(1)
  • • Yanfen Tong
    • Yingying Chen
    • MaDing Zhao
    • Qingqing Li
    • Shenhui Jin

  • PubMed: 41039220
  • DOI: 10.1186/s12887-025-06004-w

  6 Insights on

  • Reduced Time to Initiate Oral Feeding

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  The colostrum + NNS group experienced significantly shorter times to initiate oral feeding (217.15 ± 1.20 days vs. 222.10 ± 1.15 days, P < 0.05)

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes