Summary of ‘Non-nutritive sucking for promoting physiologic stability and nutrition in preterm infants’

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Cochrane Review: Non-nutritive sucking for promoting physiologic stability and nutrition in preterm infants

✍ Janet Pinelli; Amanda J Symington 📂 Article 📅 2011 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 319 KB

## Abstract ## Background Non‐nutritive sucking is used during gavage feeding and in the transition from gavage to breast/bottle feeding in preterm infants to promote the development of sucking behaviour and improve digestion of enteral feedings. ## Objectives To determine whether non‐nutritive