Welcome to the website for INTERPRACTICE-21^st!

The next phase of the INTERGROWTH-21^st Project, known as INTERPRACTICE-21^st, has begun.

INTERPRACTICE-21^st aims to promote optimal postnatal growth of preterm infants until 6 months post-term by:

• standardising growth measurement in babies born preterm by using the INTERGROWTH-21^st international standards
  and
• implementing evidence-based feeding recommendations based on breast feeding.

We have partnered with leading neonatal units across the world to introduce these interventions in their hospitals and countries, with the ultimate aim of wider dissemination and high-level health policy support.

Using recommended feeding practices and international standards to monitor postnatal growth and development should help avoid nutritional patterns that may be associated with childhood overweight and obesity, and improve the growth, development, and survival of preterm infants.