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. 2025 Jun 20.
doi: 10.1038/s41390-025-04235-2. Online ahead of print.

Breastfeeding beyond infancy

Neena Modi  1
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Breastfeeding beyond infancy

Neena Modi. Pediatr Res. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: This paper represents an invited commentary. The author is a co-chief investigator for the COLLABORATE 2-randomisation, adaptive controlled trial of enteral feeding practices in extremely preterm babies ( https://www.imperial.ac.uk/neonatal-data-analysis-unit/collaborate/ ) and the current president of the European Association of Perinatal Medicine.

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