Shazia Afreen* and M A Mannan
Mother's own milk is the best gift for fragile preterm newborns in terms of growth, nutrition and development. Most of the time this tiny babies deprived of mother's own milk because of delayed and infrequent expressions of breast milk. Parents of preterm babies often not aware of the benefits of preterm milk. In this article we discussed about the factors responsible for less availability of mother's own milk in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and various ways to overcome it.