Cautionary tales: The use of human milk in preterm infants.

In the last 40 years, the use of human milk as the primary nutritional source for infants born preterm has changed from being a debatable novelty1,2 to being a de facto standard of care,3 either as mother's own milk (MOM) or, if MOM supply is inadequate, as donor human milk. Despite this, as 2 articles in this volume of The Journal remind us,4,5 there remains much to learn, or to re-learn, about the use of human milk in infants born preterm.