OBJECTIVE This study compared bottle-feeding behaviors in preterm infants with and without bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) during the initial hospitalization. METHOD Individual sucking characteristics and feeding transitional rates were compared in 41 preterm infants (22 boys, 19 girls) with BPD and 99 infants (44 boys, 55 girls) without BPD. Observations of the first bottle feeding and obse...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding of premature babies. AIM To describe breastfeeding in premature babies with very low birth weight (VLBW) and its association with the oral motor system (OMS) and with maternal-child bonding. METHOD A cross-sectional study with 48 VLBW premature babies. An interview with the mothers, as well as the evaluation of the newborns' OMS and signs of attachment was performed...

This investigation was designed to quantify the coordinative organization of mandibular muscles in toddlers during speech and nonspeech behaviors. Seven 15-month-olds were observed during spontaneous production of chewing, sucking, babbling, and speech. Comparison of mandibular coordination across these behaviors revealed that, even for children in the earliest stages of true word production, c...

OBJECTIVE To compare the sucking pattern of preterm infants on different feeding methods. METHODS The sucking behavior on a gloved finger was evaluated for infants receiving breastfeeding, spoon-feeding and tube-feeding. RESULTS The mean (SD) numbers of sucks in spoon-fed infants [49 (20) vs. 35 (23); P=0.04] were significantly higher, and the grade of suck was significantly better compared...

PURPOSE The goal of this study was to verify the prevalence of nutritive (breast-feeding and bottle-feeding) and non-nutritive (pacifier) sucking habits, the methods used to eliminate them, and success of these methods. METHODS To collect the data, 502 questionnaires were distributed to parents of 0- to 6-year-old children. RESULTS Bottle-feeding was used by 83% and pacifier by 63% of child...

This article was accepted fur publication September 26, 1991. Behavioral research has indicated that thumbsucking often covaries with hair pulling and that the elimination of thumb-sucking can result in the elimination of the hair pulling with which it was associated (e.g., Frlman & Hove, 1987; Knell & Moore, 1988). Treatments for persistent thumb-sucking, however, have shown minimal or transie...

Introduction: The purpose of this report was to present a successful treatment approach in an unusual gingival recession as a result of finger sucking traumatic habit associated with high labial frenum. Case Report: A 10-year-old girl presented moderate pain, recession in the mandibular right incisor and finger sucking habit. The performed treatment was: oral hygiene instruction, use of palatal...

There are two valuable but highly technical descriptions. The first is a study of the sucking apparatus of a small brown fly found throughout the oriental region and of a genus closely allied to Musca. It is a very common blood sucking fly of cattle in Madras. The second study by Capt. Cragg is of the Hcematopota pluvialis, a gadfly or cleg of the family of Tabanidae. It attacks man, cattle or ...

The effect of enclosure design on diurnal activity and stereotypic behaviour was assessed in 17 adult Malayan Sun bears (Helarctos malayanus), kept either in barren indoor enclosures or relatively enriched outdoor enclosures. Locomotion was the most frequent activity observed in the indoor bears, followed by resting. In contrast, conspecifics housed outdoors spent most of the time resting. Elev...

When cereal grain is fed to horses there is a risk of laminitis and it is also common to fmd behavioural changes characterised by chewing wood, eating bedding and grasping (wind sucking). This paper discusses the link between acidity in the gut, as a result of grain feeding, and the risk of laminitis and adverse behaviour. A proportion of the starch consumed as cereal grain passes undigested to...