INTRODUCTION¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ During my clinical rotation at Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in the NICU there was a set of twins, B.L. and J.L. who had been admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit 6 days prior. They were born premature at 27 weeks and both weighed less than 2lbs. J.L., the smaller of the two babies, was diagnosed with necrotizing enterocolitis. This diagnosis meant that J.L’s bowel was inflamed and his intestinal tissue was dying; there was also a perforation in the b...