Valerie,
The study I quoted looked at fortified vs unfortified preterm human
milk, not mature donor milk, which is why I thought it was worth a
mention.

When you say "preterm" in reference to the 1983 study, how preterm do
you mean? There is a very big difference between a 24 weeker and a 34
weeker, for example. As (I think) Gonneke mentioned, it was not nature's
intent that the extremely premature infant survive, and they don't
without intervention.  We don't add fortifiers to the milk of 34
weekers, and they do very well. Their mother's milk does have a higher
calorie content for a while, among other things. But is this enough for
the extremely premature infant, who might be missing out on 3-4 months
of intrauterine growth?

Anne, RN

> In Lactation by Neville and Neifert (1983) they mention a "recent"
> [1983]study of premature infants fed their own mother's milk and the
> growth
> rate was supposedly comparable to infants fed 24-calorie-per ounce
> formula,
> while premature infants fed mature donor milk grew more slowly. (page
> 305)

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