The Development of Non-Nutritive Sucking in Premature Infants

Dubignon, Judith; Campbell, Dianne; Partington, M. W.

doi:10.1159/000240194

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“…Although the development of respiratory rhythmicity [12] and nonnutritive sucking [2,4,15] in preterm infants have been reported separately, our data reveal an interaction be tween these two motor rhythms as early as 32 weeks postconceptional age. These findings are consistent with those o fSameroff [ 13], who showed that term infants also increase f at the beginning of NNSBs, and with those of Mathew et al [8], who observed an increased f in the sucking phase compared to the pause of the nonnutritivc sucking period.…”

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Interaction between Nonnutritive Sucking and Respiration in Preterm Infants

Paludetto¹,

Robertson

Martin

1986

Neonatology

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The effect of nonnutritive sucking bursts (NNSBs) on respiratory frequency was sequentially evaluated in 12 healthy preterm infants. Studies were performed during active sleep in infants between 32 and 37 weeks postconceptional age. The duration of NNSBs was classified as follows: (a) less than 3 s, (b) between 3 and 6 s, and (c) greater than 6 s. NNSBs of each duration were found at all ages, although NNSBs > 6 s were the least frequently observed. Respiratory rate increased significantly during NNSBs of less than 3 s, and also in those of 3–6 s duration. There was no significant effect on respiratory frequency of sucking bursts longer than 6 s. Our results document an early interaction between these two motor rhythms, which is influenced by the length of the NNSB. Moreover, they indicate that the decrease in respiratory frequency reported in a similar group of preterm infants during feeding should not be interpreted as an effect of sucking per se.

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Interaction between Nonnutritive Sucking and Respiration in Preterm Infants

Paludetto¹,

Robertson

Martin

1986

Neonatology

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“…The slow and occasionally unsteady maturation of the preterm's sucking response is well-documented (Anderson & Vidyasagar, 1979;Dubignon, Campbell, & Partington, 1969). As is the case with any intervention, the use of NNS must be weighed in light of the characteristics of the particular infant for whom it is intended.…”

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The effect of nonnutritive sucking on heart rate in preterm infants

Woodson

Hamilton

1988

Developmental Psychobiology

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A laboratory and a field experiment used within-subject designs to test the hypothesis that nonnutritive sucking (NNS) reduces heart rate (HR) in preterm infants. Infants in Experiment A were provided a standard pacifier nipple for 30 min under strictly controlled conditions. In the field Experiment B, nursing staff provided infants with a standard pacifier during alternate intervals in a sequence of four interfeed intervals spanning 12 hr. NNS significantly reduced average HR in each experiment. Given the strongly positive relationship between HR and energy expenditure, these results suggest that NNS reduces energy expenditure in preterm infants. Such an effect, in turn, could help to explain how the opportunity to engage in NNS enhances growth in preterms.

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“…This is an unexpected finding since several other maturational changes have been described at these p.c. ages in, or related to, motor behaviour such as reflex activity [12], non-nutritive sucking [3], posture and muscle tone [4], However, the number of babies we studied were few and our conclu sion can only be tentative.…”

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confidence: 77%