The Organization and Control of Infant Sucking

Crook, Charles

doi:10.1016/s0065-2407(08)60115-9

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“…Nutritive sucking also has a slower mean rate per secondusually about half-compared to non-nutritive sucking (Wolff, 1968). Crook (1979) purported that nutritive sucking is slower paced because time is needed for swallowing. The next modifying factors, hunger and arousal, are not easily studied independently of each other.…”

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Neonatal Sucking Behaviors

Medoff‐Cooper¹,

Ray

1995

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Neonatal sucking responses or behaviors have been of great interest to researchers and clinicians since the early 1800s. Since 1960, there has been a resurgence of interest in the objective study of sucking behaviors in both the psychological and medical literature. The studies have examined both nutritive and non-nutritive sucking measurements. Sucking behaviors have been studied to understand the development of the feeding mechanism as well as to track neurobehavioral development. The relationship between sucking behaviors and behavioral organization of the newborn are considered, along with a historical perspective of sucking measurements, relevant literature on nutritive sucking, physiologic correlates, differences in breast and bottle feeding patterns, non-nutritive sucking, and factors that modify sucking organization. Implications for nursing practice will be discussed.

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“…Effective sucking behaviors or feeding is not only a prerequisite for survival, but also implies that an infant has achieved the neurologic, behavioral, and physiologic maturity required for safe, effective oral feeding. This behavior claims an important place in theories of development and has been the subject of a considerable body of research (Crook, 1979).…”

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Neonatal Sucking Behaviors

Medoff‐Cooper¹,

Ray

1995

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“…In the human neonate, periodicity is evident in a number of physiological processes and behaviors at frequencies that span several orders of magnitude. A few high-frequency rhythmic behaviors, such as breathing (Schulte 1979) and sucking (Crook 1979), play a direct role in the maintenance of life. It has also been suggested that some fast rhythms like sucking reflect the presence of an endogenous oscillator or timing system in the neonate, which may be a precursor of mechanisms that control the temporal patterning of more complex motor acts later in development (Ashton 1976;Wolff 1967).…”

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Intrinsic Temporal Patterning in the Spontaneous Movement of Awake Neonates

Robertson¹

1982

Child Development

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The temporal organization of spontaneous movement in healthy, awake neonates was studied on the second or third day after birth. Movement was recorded using time lapse photography and quantified as a function of time. Fourier analysis was then used to partition the total variance of each neonate's time-based data into independent components in the frequency domain. Tests on the resulting cumulative variance distributions indicated that the fluctuations in movement over time were not random. Smoothed spectral density functions were then computed to isolate the dominant rhythms. Spectral peaks occurred in the region between .24 and 1.86 cycles per min, indicating the presence of rhythms in general motility with an average frequency (across babies) of .69 cycles per min. These findings are evidence of intrinsic temporal organization at frequencies very different from previously documented rhythms in newborn behavior and physiology.

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“…The tongue, a muscular hydrostat (Smith & Kier, 1989), is an exquisite haptic tool; its differentiated musculature and receptor surfaces make it an exploratory organ capable of such discriminations (Gibson, 1967;Crook, 1979). In the nutritive mode, the infant uses the tongue to explore for milk, to pump milk into the mouth and to trigger swallowing (Selley et al, 1990).…”

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“…Switching into the nutritive mode of sucking at the onset of milk flow implies that the perceptual systems may be continually exploring the ongoing dynamics of the oral articulators for the presence of sweet-tasting fluids, such as milk (Smith & Blass, 1996). The tongue, a muscular hydrostat (Smith & Kier, 1989), is an exquisite haptic tool; its differentiated musculature and receptor surfaces make it an exploratory organ capable of such discriminations (Gibson, 1967;Crook, 1979). In the nutritive mode, the infant uses the tongue to explore for milk, to pump milk into the mouth and to trigger swallowing (Selley et al, 1990).…”

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Dynamics of oralrespiratory coordination in full‐term and preterm infants: II. Continuing effects at 3 months post term

Goldfield

Wolff

Schmidt

1999

Developmental Science

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Thirty-two infants participating in a longitudinal study of the effects of premature birth on sucking and breathing were tested at 3 months post term. They were assigned at a previous test to either a healthy full-term, healthy preterm, or high risk preterm group on the basis of birth weight, postconceptional age at birth, and perinatal medical status. Positive and negative sucking pressure as well as chest and abdominal breathing movements were recorded during nutritive sucking. The high risk preterms used a simpler and more stable pattern of coordination between sucking and breathing, were more likely to interrupt breathing at milk onset, and produced longer phase lags between positive and negative sucking pressure.

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The Organization and Control of Infant Sucking

Cited by 29 publications

References 94 publications

Neonatal Sucking Behaviors

Neonatal Sucking Behaviors

Intrinsic Temporal Patterning in the Spontaneous Movement of Awake Neonates

Dynamics of oralrespiratory coordination in full‐term and preterm infants: II. Continuing effects at 3 months post term

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