Sucking and Breathing Patterns During Breast- and Bottle-feeding in Term Neonates

Sucking behaviour using feeding teats with and without an anticolic system: a randomized controlled clinical trial

“…Our results support the findings of Fadavi et al who observed no differences in oxygen saturation when term neonates were bottle-fed with different nipples [ 22 ]. This is in contrast to other studies that found decreased oxygenation saturation during feeding of term neonates [ 7 , 17 ]. One possible explanation for our results may be that we included older infants who maintained stable oxygen saturation.…”

Sucking Patterns of Neonates During Bottle Feeding: Comparison of Different Nipple Units

“…The sucking rates for both term and preterm infants were similar regardless of the type of nipple units used. These values are similar to those we have reported previously during bottle feeding of formula and expressed human milk 2 and are in agreement with the mean sucking frequency reported in 5-to 8-day old breastfed infants. 16 A higher sucking rate on an emptied breast compared to a full breast and a linear correlation between milk flow and intersuck interval have been documented in breastfed infants.…”

Changes in Sucking Performance from Nonnutritive Sucking to Nutritive Sucking during Breast- and Bottle-Feeding

“…In addition, because all of the studied infants used the same teat type at the nursery, it was reasonable to also use it for the measurements. The sucking frequency obtained in this study is compatible with values previously published elsewhere (15). In addition, the feeding efficiency in our study was 6.9 mL/min, that is, infants consume 70 mL of milk in 10 min, which is usual for bottle-fed infants.…”

“…Although sucking pressure is similar during the NS period for both the breast and the bottle, as Mathew and Bhatia previously reported (15), the changes in sucking pressure from NNS to NS were opposite between breast-and bottle-feeding. Lau and Kusnierczyk (22) recently compared NNS and NS performance.…”