Science of bottle feeding
For a newborn infant, there is hardly a more complex motor act than feeding, which can be broken down into three components: sucking, swallowing, and breathing. Each of these motor acts involves sequential and coordinated contraction of a number of muscles. What follows is an attempt to put in persp...
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Veröffentlicht in: | The Journal of pediatrics 1991-10, Vol.119 (4), p.511-519 |
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Zusammenfassung: | For a newborn infant, there is hardly a more complex motor act than feeding, which can be broken down into three components: sucking, swallowing, and breathing. Each of these motor acts involves sequential and coordinated contraction of a number of muscles. What follows is an attempt to put in perspective the science of bottle feeding; only limited references will be made to breast-feeding |
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ISSN: | 0022-3476 1097-6833 |
DOI: | 10.1016/S0022-3476(05)82397-2 |