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Premature baby milk intake chart
How much should a premature baby eat at 1 month.
Feeding your premature baby
Preemie baby feeding challenges
Just because your baby is premature, it doesn't mean they'll have feeding problems.
But many preemies need extra time to get the hang of feeding, whether from a bottle or breast.
A baby's suck-swallow-breathe pattern usually becomes coordinated enough to breastfeed around 34 weeks gestation, so if your baby is born around this time, they might be able to breastfeed right away.
Your baby's doctor or nurse will be able to tell whether your baby is ready for breast or bottle-feeding, or whether they need to be fed through a nasogastric (NG) tube at first.
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Some of the most common things to work through when feeding a preemie baby include keeping up your milk supply and helping your baby learn to latch.
Keeping up your milk supply
If you're hoping to breastfeed, but your baby is too small to do so right after birth, you'll want to stimulate and maintain your milk supply.
You'll be able to express breast milk right away, within an hour after your b
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