The first feed of low birthweight infants. Changing attitudes in the twentieth century.
Open Access
- 1 March 1978
- journal article
- review article
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 53 (3) , 187-192
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.53.3.187
Abstract
Important events in the cycle of changing opinion concerning early feeding practices of low birthweight infants were examined, including the era of delayed feeding, the era of early feeding, and clinical and experimental (rat) studies.This publication has 34 references indexed in Scilit:
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