Duodenal Feeds in Very Low Birth Weight Infants

Eligible infants will be recruited and enrolled and randomized to either duodenal feeds (DF) or gastric feeds (GF), which will occur just prior to the infants advancing beyond 50mL/kg/day of enteral feeds. All enrolled infants will be fed per our institutional feeding protocol. Once infants advance past a volume of 50mL/kg/day of enteral feeds, at this point infants will be randomized to DF or GF groups.