Inclusion Criteria:  All neonates with confirmed NEC and require surgical intervention will be included  Exclusion Criteria:  Neonates found to have NEC totalis and deemed unsalvageable; Neonates found to have multiple sites of gangrenous bowels which require more than two anastomoses; Neonates found to be extremely unstable cardiovascularly intra-operatively and can only withstand excision of gangrenous bowels, but will not allow anastomosis or stoma creation; Parents who do not agree to participate in the study Neonates found to have pathology other than NEC after recruitment (either on intraoperative findings or pathological findings on surgical specimens).