Sucking on the 'emptied' breast: non-nutritive sucking with a difference.
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Sucking on the 'emptied' breast: non-nutritive sucking with a difference.
A simple method to promote the use of human milk and subsequent breast feeding in low birthweight infants was evaluated in 32 babies. In the 'intervention' group (n = 16; mean (SD) weight 1559 (228) g and length of gestation 33.2 (1.8) weeks), infants were allowed to suckle at the breast when their general condition permitted after as much milk as possible had been expressed, and were then give...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1991
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.66.2.241