Sweet taste, looking, and calm in 2- and 4-week-old infants: The eyes have it.

Zeifman, Debra M.; Delaney, Sarah; Blass, Elliott M.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.32.6.1090

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“…Crying 4-week-old infants can be soothed by individuals who provide them sucrose while in eye contact. Sucrose alone does not stop crying, nor does eye contact alone (Zeifman, Delaney & Blass, 1996). Moreover, eye contact in conjunction with sucrose delivery or pacifier sucking, can be sufficient for infants at different ages to develop and express a preference for the person providing these moieties (Blass & Camp, 2003).…”

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Social influences on formula intake via suckling in 7 to 14‐week‐old‐infants

Lumeng¹,

Patil²,

Blass³

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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To investigate social influences on human suckling behavior, 25 healthy, full term, 7 to 14-week-old infants were each bottle-fed their own formula twice by their mother and once in each of four experimental conditions: (a) held, provided social interaction; (b) held, without interaction; (c) not held, provided interaction; (d) not held, without interaction. Volume intake (VI), Total Sucks, infant gaze direction, and time elapsed since the last feeding were determined. There were three major findings: (1) social interaction increased VI; (2) VI was linearly related to the time since the last feeding in held infants; (3) Total Sucks and VI were both highly correlated with privation length when infants did not look at the feeder and when fed by the mother. Thus, social influences exert strong immediate impacts on suckling. Accordingly, suckling functions to obtain both nutrition from and social information about the feeder.

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Social influences on formula intake via suckling in 7 to 14‐week‐old‐infants

Lumeng¹,

Patil²,

Blass³

2007

Developmental Psychobiology

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“…10,11 In a recent comparison of rocking, nonnutritive sucking, sucrose (20%), expressed breast milk and massage against control in full-term neonates, it was reported that rocking and nonnutritive sucking were the most efficacious in decreasing crying. 12 In summary, the use of multiple sensory stimulations to decrease pain response in infants seems to be additive: the combination of tactile, auditory, vestibular, olfactory, gustative and visual stimulation, 13 maintaining visual contact, 14 adding sucking to holding 15 increases efficacy. The purpose of this study was to determine if by adding other sensory modalities given by the mother during KMC, the previously demonstrated comforting effect of KMC would be enhanced.…”

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Enhanced kangaroo mother care for heel lance in preterm neonates: a crossover trial

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Objective: To test if enhancing maternal skin-to-skin contact, or kangaroo mother care (KMC) by adding rocking, singing and sucking is more efficacious than simple KMC for procedural pain in preterm neonates.Study Design: Preterm neonates (n ¼ 90) between 32 0/7 and 36 0/7 weeks' gestational age participated in a single-blind randomized crossover design. The infant was held in KMC with the addition of rocking, singing and sucking or the infant was held in KMC without additional stimulation. The Premature Infant Pain Profile was the primary outcome with time to recover as the secondary outcome. A repeated-measures analysis of covariance was employed for analyses.Result: There were no significant differences in any of the 30 s time periods over the 2 min of blood sampling nor in time to return to baseline. Compared to historical controls of the same age in incubator, the pain scores were lower and comparable to other studies of KMC. There were site differences related to lower scores with the use of sucrose in one site and higher scores in younger, sicker infants in another site. Conclusion:The sensorial stimulations from skin-to-skin contact that include tactile, olfactory sensations from the mother are sufficient to decrease pain response in premature neonates. Other studies showing that rocking, sucking and music were efficacious were independent of skin-to-skin contact, which, when used alone has been shown to be effective as reported across studies.

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“…They function as emotional expressions to engage in communication by 'intersubjective motor control' with signs of the mind states in other human beings (Trevarthen, 1986). Newborns, in addition to very remarkable expressive capacities, show preferences for responding to many forms of human signal: certain tastes and odours; felt, heard or seen cadences of movement; forms, colours or sounds that identify persons, especially a responsive and sympathetic mother (Fantz, 1963;Goren, Sarty and Wu, 1975;McFarlane, 1975;Hofer, 1990;Zeifman, Delaney and Blass, 1996;Blass, 1999).…”

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What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being

Trevarthen

2011

Infant and Child Development

189

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Abstract:As thinking adults depend upon years of practical experience, reasoning about facts and causes, and language to sustain their knowledge, beliefs and memories, and to understand one another, it seems quite absurd to suggest that a newborn infant has intersubjective mental capacities. But detailed research on how neonatal selves coordinate the rhythms of their movements and senses, and how they engage in intimate and seductive precision with other persons' movements, sensing their purposes and feelings, gives evidence that it is so. The developmental and functional neuroscience of the human brain agrees. Indeed it seems that cultural intelligence itself is motivated at every stage by the kind of powers of innate intersubjective sympathy that an alert infant can show shortly after birth. We are born to generate shifting states of self-awareness, to show them to other persons, and to provoke interest and affectionate responses from them. Thus starts a new psychology of the creativity and cooperative knowing and meaning in human communities."An objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behaviour, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience. The result, in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analysed by the neurologist. But the experience of the organism is integrated, organised, and has its meaning in terms of coordinated movement."

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Sweet taste, looking, and calm in 2- and 4-week-old infants: The eyes have it.

Cited by 54 publications

References 30 publications

Social influences on formula intake via suckling in 7 to 14‐week‐old‐infants

Social influences on formula intake via suckling in 7 to 14‐week‐old‐infants

Enhanced kangaroo mother care for heel lance in preterm neonates: a crossover trial

What is it like to be a person who knows nothing? Defining the active intersubjective mind of a newborn human being

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