2024
DOI: 10.1186/s13052-024-01683-0
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Development of eating skills in infants and toddlers from a neuropediatric perspective

Hermann Kalhoff,
Mathilde Kersting,
Kathrin Sinningen
et al.

Abstract: Early infant feeding and swallowing are complex motor processes involving numerous muscles in coordination, e.g. the orofacial muscles as well as the muscles of the pharynx, larynx and esophagus. The newborn’s reflexive drinking develops into the ability to ingest pureed complementary food as infancy progresses. Finally, in the last part of the first year of life, a differentiated eating, chewing and swallowing process develops allowing the voluntary intake of different foods of the family diet. The dietary sc… Show more

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