Providing Optimal Nutrition to Very Low Birthweight Infants in the NICU.

Major improvements in preterm nutrition have taken place in the past 2 decades that have resulted in the successful survival of extremely preterm infants. Nutrition management for preterm infants traverses several different epochs during hospitalization. More standardization of practice has been evaluated during the early epochs (parenteral nutrition and enteral feeding advancement), whereas later epochs are opportunities for enhanced research to further standardize nutrition practices.