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| To answer this question, researchers at UC San Diego Medical Center have launched a comprehensive program to study how breast milk can be fed to premature infants and to identify the ingredients that give human milk its life-boosting qualities. Called Supporting Premature Infant Nutrition (SPIN), the new program is focused on the provision, analysis, and research of human milk to improve nutritional and neurodevelopmental outcomes in preterm babies. The program is believed to be the first of its kind in the United States. |
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| “Breast milk can save infant’s lives,” said Lisa Stellwagon, M.D., pediatrician and director of SPIN at UC San Diego. “While premature infants may not be capable of breastfeeding in the short term, we are identifying strategies and techniques to provide the infants the milk and to make the milk available in the long run. The data collected from this study will be shared globally with hospitals that would like to adopt similar programs for premature infants.” |
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