McGowan J S, Marsh R R, Fowler S M, Levy S E, Stallings V A
Division of Communication Disorders, Children's Seashore House, Philadelphia, PA.
Dev Med Child Neurol. 1991 Oct;33(10):891-7. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-8749.1991.tb14798.x.
The purpose of this investigation was to quantify normal nutritive sucking, using a microcomputer-based instrument which replicated the infant's customary bottle-feeding routine. 86 feeding sessions were recorded from infants ranging between 1.5 and 11.5 months of age. Suck height, suck area and percentage of time spent sucking were unrelated to age. Volume per suck declined with age, as did intersuck interval, which corresponded to a more rapid sucking rate. This meant that volume per minute of sucking time was fairly constant. The apparatus provided an objective description of the patterns of normal nutritive sucking in infants to which abnormal sucking patterns may be compared.
本研究的目的是使用一种基于微型计算机的仪器来量化正常的营养性吸吮，该仪器可复制婴儿习惯的奶瓶喂养程序。记录了86次来自1.5至11.5个月大婴儿的喂养过程。吸吮高度、吸吮面积和吸吮时间百分比与年龄无关。每次吸吮的奶量随年龄下降，吸吮间隔也随年龄下降，这对应于更快的吸吮速度。这意味着每分钟吸吮时间内的奶量相当恒定。该仪器为婴儿正常营养性吸吮模式提供了客观描述，可与异常吸吮模式进行比较。
