ArticleEarly human development2020
Changes in non-nutritive suck between 3 and 12 months.
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- Impact of intrapartum oxytocin administration on neonatal sucking behavior and breastfeeding.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- An examination of the association between infant non-nutritive suck and developmental outcomes at 12 months.PloS one · 2024Article
- Infant Bottle-Feeding: A Prospective Study of Infant Physiology and Parental Report Metrics.Comprehensive child and adolescent nursing · 2023Article
- Spectral features of non-nutritive suck dynamics in extremely preterm infants.Pediatric medicine (Hong Kong, China) · 2023Article
- Examining the association between prenatal maternal stress and infant non-nutritive suck.Pediatric research · 2023Article
- Associations between biomarkers of prenatal metals exposure and non-nutritive suck among infants from the PROTECT birth cohort in Puerto Rico.Frontiers in epidemiology · 2022Article
- Correlation between maternal eating disorder and early infant feeding regulation: a cross -sectional study.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2021Article
- Non-nutritive suck and airborne metal exposures among Puerto Rican infants.The Science of the total environment · 2021Article
- Associations of gestational phthalate exposure and non-nutritive suck among infants from the Puerto Rico Testsite for Exploring Contamination Threats (PROTECT) birth cohort study.Environment international · 2021Article
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- Sucking versus swallowing coordination, integration, and performance in preterm and term infants.Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985) · 2020Article
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Abstract
backgroundNon-nutritive suck (NNS) is one piece of the complex oral feeding process, yet there is paucity on how it develops throughout the first year of life.
aimsTo determine changes in infant NNS between 3 and 12 months of age. STUDY
designTwenty-six full-term infants (65% male) completed this study. All infants were offered our custom research pacifier to attain a quantitative analysis of their suck pattern. Based on quantitative analyses of NNS cycle count, the best 2 min of infants' suck were selected and analyzed. OUTCOME MEASURES: NNS duration, amplitude, cycles/burst, frequency, cycles, and bursts.
resultsNNS duration, bursts, cycles/burst and cycles significantly decreased from 3 to 12 months, yet amplitude significantly increased over the same time period. Additionally, no significant differences were evident for NNS frequency. Three-month-old infants produced a median of 4.50 suck bursts per minute that contained 9.60 cycles/burst, resulting in a burst duration of 4.74 s. The median NNS frequency was 2.09 Hz, with an average amplitude of 14.05 cmH
conclusionFull-term infants significantly change their NNS duration, amplitude, burst number, cycles/burst and cycle number with no significant changes present in NNS frequency between 3 and 12 months. Knowledge of NNS emergence and maturation during the first year of life is imperative for proper NNS assessment so that healthcare professionals can identify delays.
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