Newborn Nutrition

Newborn Nutrition

Create a teaching tool to promote breastfeeding. The material created to educate new mothers on breastfeeding will influence the mother’s decision to breastfeed, including duration, based on the quality and content of the teaching.

Assignment Requirements

Your teaching tool will be a trifold and must include this relevant content for a mother considering the risks and benefits of breastfeeding a newborn. Newborn Nutrition

Explain how breast milk is formed in the mammary glands and the physiology of breast milk

Include two 2020 National Health Goals related to newborn nutrition to support breast feeding as the best choice. See the link below:

https://www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topics-objectives/topic/maternal-infant-and-child-health

· Discuss the advantages of breastfeeding related to immunities transferred to the newborn

· Describe three additional benefits of breast feeding with supporting rationales

· Include at least two supporting resources Newborn Nutrition

Infancy is a period of rapid growth second only to the fetal period, with a pressing need to optimize nutrition to ensure adequate growth and organ development. This article covers defining nutritional requirements in infancy, appropriate measurement of growth, and provides an overview of common nutrient categories. This activity describes the nutritional needs of preterm infants, as well as selected pathological conditions in infancy, and highlights the role of the interprofessional team in evaluating and improving care for such infants

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Infancy is a period of rapid growth second only to the fetal period. There is a pressing need to optimize nutrition to ensure adequate growth and organ development. With much emphasis placed on the developmental origins of health and disease, pioneered by the Barker hypothesis [1], maintaining optimal nutrition is one of the vital aspects of infancy. Under-nutrition during the fetal period due to placental, maternal, or fetal conditions can lead to intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) with impaired organogenesis and decreased birth weight. While fetal nutrition is not usually compromised until an extreme degree of maternal malnutrition occurs, postnatal growth restriction in neonatal and post-neonatal period is predominantly an acquired condition due to inadequate nutrient intake. Continued undernutrition during infancy is hence prone to growth failure or failure to thrive (FTT) and metabolic disturbances that can persist into adult life. Newborn Nutrition

Low birth weight and rapid compensatory weight gain are independently linked to multiple morbidities in addition to altered growth, including increased risk of childhood and adult obesity, insulin resistance, increased leptin levels, and thus type 2 diabetes mellitus, as well as higher mortality in the future.[1][2][3] Besides, epigenetic modifications resulting from dietary and environmental influences in infancy have the potential to change long term health outcomes into adulthood, as seen in infants and children with over-nutrition developing metabolic syndrome as adults.[4][5]

Preterm infants are particularly at high risk of postnatal growth failure due to the inherent challenges faced due to prematurity. Improved care of preterm infants, including current advances in neonatal and infant nutrition, has been shown to improve growth and development in this high-risk population.[6] This topic covers defining nutritional requirements in infancy, appropriate measurement of growth, and provides an overview of common nutrient categories. The nutritional needs of preterm infants and common clinical pearls of preterm infant nutrition are discussed briefly. Newborn Nutrition

The needs of infants determine the amount of nutrition required to maintain and support adequate growth and optimal health while maintaining homeostasis with other nutrients. Nutritional requirements vary in infancy, and growth patterns are closely linked to optimized nutrition. The use of standardized definitions is essential when plotting growth in infancy. Energy expenditure for basal metabolic processes, regular physical activities, as well as unexpected increased energy utilization for pathological conditions, determine the infant’s caloric intake. A healthy child from birth to 1 year should receive around 100 kcal/kg/day. Neonatal caloric requirements are higher at about 110–135 kcal/kg/day Newborn Nutrition