Fiona Dunleavy

Most of us...

here would have a requirement of about 30 calories per kilo.

If you were an elite athlete, maybe doing marathons or cycling, you might have 100 calories per kilo.

Our tiniest baby needs at least 120 calories per kilo.

We have to get that into their little bodies without affecting them in a bad way.

And that's only the calories.

So every other nutrient would also have similar kind of, that's an obvious one to think of,

Protein is obviously very popular.

A lot of people think about protein for muscle building or fitness.

Protein is so important for babies.

So, again, in pregnancy, babies grow rapidly from 24 weeks onwards.

And we need to kind of replicate that for our little babies.

And protein is a real key building block.

What's really interesting is.

newborn milk particularly preterm milk is higher in protein than milk further out so then more mature milk so we have we have that unique substrate for those newborn babies that premature milk even in the colostrum it would be different to term milk so it's really important to get that milk in for our newborn babies here so we really work hard with the mothers to make sure that they can provide that milk for their little babies

whether they decided before or not to breastfeed, we need to support them to supply the milk because it's so important.

Now, unfortunately...

it doesn't adapt it enough.

So in fact, we do have to add a little bit of additional.

And it's important, I suppose, for any parent or for other people to realise that we add a thing called fortifier.