Feeding premature babies with human milk, regardless of the weight gain, offers many advantages for the health of these patients. During hospitalization, human milk feeding is related to less occurrence of necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis and urinary tract infection, decreased gastric pH, increased gastrointestinal motility, accelerated mucosal immunity, improved gut microflora, and decreased mucosal permeability leading to reduced bacterial translocation. The benefits of human milk remain after discharge as they improve indexes of neurodevelopment that persists into adolescence, avoiding obesity, precocious puberty and other problems (25 –28).