The following position statements and guidelines are not endorsed by the Neonatal Dietitians Interest Group unless otherwise specified within the document. They are intended as a collection of recent key documents that viewers may find useful.
BDA Documents
- The routine supplementation of vitamins (including vitamin K) and iron and the management of zinc deficiency in preterm and small for gestational age infants. BDA NDiG Dietitians (2025)
- Breast Milk Composition Data based on ESPGHAN Position Paper on Enteral Nutrition for Preterm Infants (2022). Collated by BDA NDiG Dietitians (2023)
- BDA guideline for storage and handling of EBM and DBM (2019)
ESPGHAN Position Statements and Guidelines
- Assessment of growth status and nutritional management of prematurely born infants after hospital discharge (2025)
- Re-evaluating the FDA's warning against the use of probiotics in preterm neonates: A societal statement by ESPGHAN and EFCNI (2024)
- Enteral nutrition in preterm infants (2022)
- Nutritional management of the critically ill neonate (2021)
- Probiotics and preterm infants (2020)
- Feeding the late and moderately preterm infant (2019)
- ESPGHAN/ESPEN/ESPR/CSPEN guidelines on pediatric parenteral nutrition (2018)
NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
- Neonatal parenteral nutrition NICE Guideline (2020) This guideline covers parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) for babies born preterm, up to 28 days after their due date and babies born at term, up to 28 days after their birth.
- Neonatal parenteral nutrition Quality Standard (2022) This quality standard covers parenteral nutrition (intravenous feeding) for babies born preterm, up to 28 days after their due date, and babies born at term, up to 28 days after their birth. It describes high-quality care and priority areas for improvement.
- Specialist neonatal respiratory care for babies born preterm NICE guideline (2019) This guideline covers neonatal respiratory care in preterm babies and includes a section on non-nutritive sucking for premature babies on enteral feeds.
First Steps Nutrition Trust
First Steps Nutrition Trust Infant milk info website provides information about the types of infant milks on the UK market. It provides compositional information for infant formula, follow-on formula and infant milks marketed as foods for special medical purposes that are available for sale over the counter. This includes information about Human Milk Fortifiers and Specialised milks for infants who are premature, low birth weight or have faltering growth.
Weaning Preterm Infants
Written weaning advice is available via the baby charity, BLISS. This advice has been formulated by a group of neonatal therapists (representing dietitians, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and psychologists) who have consulted within their professional groups.
BAPM Frameworks and Toolkits
- Neonatal Outreach Service (2025)
- Perioperative care of extremely premature babies at <28 weeks gestation (2024)
- Recognising uncertainty: an integrated framework for palliative care in perinatal medicine (2024)
- The use of donor human milk in neonates (2023)
- BAPM Toolkit: Reducing the incidence of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (2023)
- Early Postnatal Care of the Moderate-Late Preterm Infant (2023)
- Lactation and loss(2022)
- Family Integrated Care (2021)
UNICEF Baby Friendly Standards
Other Useful Publications
Updated: December 2026