Under the leadership of Dr. Martina Oneko, critical care infants are gaining important ground.  Our partners in Tanzania are implementing feeding practices that decrease stresses on fragile infants who need to conserve all their energy toward healing and growing.  Best newborn feeding practices not only maximize life-saving weight gain but insure that all the newborn's systems are functioning in a stable way.  Complications with heart functioning are avoided, hypothermia (dangerous losses in body temperature) is avoided, irregularities in breathing (and lowered levels of oxygen to the brain and other organs) are avoided.  

Infancy International is currently seeking to assist Dr. Oneko's team to further the strides made by providing feeding tubes to those babies who are not able to breastfeed.  These indwelling tubes will deliver precise doses of nutrition to the babies at optimum intervals, without invasive insertions and removals of tubes, without disrupting important sleep-wake cycles, without requiring infants to swallow milk from cups.  Since Dr. Oneko's team put into place the latest feeding advances, there have been no reported incidents of heart murmurs in these babies.  A great victory!   We look forward to the future victories which will result from this next step.  Your support enables us to make these kinds of differences in the lives of newborns.