Date	Event	Description
7 March 2009	New citation required and conclusions have changed	New authorship: Sarah Bombell, William McGuire.
7 March 2009	New search has been performed	This updates the review 'Trophic feedings for parenterally fed infants' by Tyson JE, Kennedy KA, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2005, Issue 3 (Tyson 2005). The title has been modified to 'Early trophic feeding for very low birth weight infants' and has a new authorship of Sarah Bombell and William McGuire. Changes made to the original protocol are outlined below: 1. The population has been restricted to very low birth weight and very preterm infants. 2. Early trophic feeding is defined as enteral feeding up to 24 ml/kg/day (1 ml/kg/hour) beginning within four days after birth and continued until at least one week after birth versus enteral fasting for at least one week after birth. On the subsequent introduction of progressive enteral feeding, infants should have received the same type of milk (breast milk or formula), the same route and mode of feeding (intragastric or transpyloric, bolus gavage or continuous), and the same rate of feed volume advancement in both groups. 3. Subgroup analyses of extremely low birth weight and extremely preterm infants and infants with evidence of intrauterine growth restriction or absent or reversed end‐diastolic flow velocities in Doppler studies of the fetal aorta or umbilical artery were prespecified. Search updated February 2009. Three new trials were included (Sáenz de Pipaón 2003; van Elburg 2004; Mosqueda 2008). Five trials included in the previous version of this review have been excluded because they did not fulfil the stricter definition of the intervention and comparison (Ostertag 1986; Slagle 1988; Berseth 1992; Berseth 1993; Berseth 2003). The main change to the findings and implications for practice is that the typical estimate for feed tolerance (time to full enteral feeding) is no longer statistically significant.
28 October 2008	Amended	Converted to new review format.
31 March 2005	New search has been performed	This review updates the existing review of 'Minimal enteral nutrition in parenterally fed neonates' that was published in The Cochrane Library, Disk Issue 4, 1997. Three new eligible trials (Berseth 2003; McClure 2000; Schanler 1999) have been found.
31 March 2005	New citation required and conclusions have changed	Substantive amendment.