Open AccessDescriptive Longitudinal Pilot Study: Behaviors Surrounding Feeding of Preterm Infants Who Received Extended Tube Feedings
Author(s) -
Rosemary WhiteTraut
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
hsoa journal neonatology and clinical pediatrics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2378-878X
DOI - 10.24966/ncp-878x/100092
Subject(s) - medicine , pacifier , neonatal intensive care unit , pediatrics , gestational age , feeding tube , gaze , infant feeding , breast feeding , breastfeeding , pregnancy , psychology , surgery , biology , psychoanalysis , genetics
Seventy percent of preterm infants experience challenges with oral feeding and commonly require tube feedings. Yet it is not well understood how these behaviors change over time while infants are receiving tube feedings only and through the transition to oral feedings. The purpose of this pilot study was to describe the change in behaviors surrounding feeding and with respect to advancing Post Menstrual Age (PMA) for preterm infants who received extended tube feedings during hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).