Speed of Increasing milk Feeds Trial (SIFT)

Design: Multi-centre pragmatic randomised controlled parallel-group trial. Setting: 30 tertiary level neonatal units and their associated continuing care & data collection sites within the UK and Ireland using established neonatal clinical and trial networks. Participating centres are within established neonatal networks including the UK Neonatal Infection Surveillance Network, the Northern, Yorkshire, Trent, Midlands, South Central South Coast, and Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Neonatal Networks, and managed clinical and research networks in Northern Ireland and Scotland. Target Population: Infants born before 32 completed weeks' gestation or