A study by Dang et al. revealed a difference of 3 days in the time to reach full feeds in non-surgical preterm infants receiving probiotics compared to those in the placebo group. (3) A sample size of 44 infants per group will allow for a power of 0.8 and an alpha of 0.05 for a two-tailed detect similar difference in surgical neonates. Assuming that 70% of parents' consent to their infant's participation in the study, it will be feasible to complete enrollment of 88 babies in the 2 year period of the study.