The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#424 - 🏖️ [COOL TOPICS] - How Should We Feed the Most Immature Babies in Our NICUs? (ft. Dr. Tarah Colaizy)
16 minutes Posted Mar 19, 2026 at 7:00 pm.
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Send us Fan Mail Dr. Tarah Colaizy, Professor of Neonatology at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital and Medical Director of the Mother’s Milk Bank of Iowa, challenges the one size fits all approach to nutrition in periviable infants. She shares the Iowa philosophy of individualized, principle driven feeding management, explains why rigid protocol adherence can backfire in the most immature babies, and walks through her unit’s glycerin protocol for meconium obstruction of p...