Advanced Robotics and Human-Centred Technologies - CREO Lab, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, Rome, Italy.
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione (ISTC), CNR, Rome, Italy.
J Biol Regul Homeost Agents. 2020 Sep-Oct;34(5 Suppl. 3):137-146. Technology in Medicine.
Nutritive sucking is a fundamental process assuring the primary infant nourishment in the first months of life. When feeding is impaired for pathological conditions, the growth of the infant may be delayed with a cascade effect on the overall development. While literature studied nutritive sucking development in infants with feeding problems, like in severe premature babies or with low weight at birth, few works assesses to what extent different feeding bottles may influence feeding performance of healthy new-borns. This work proposes a method for functional characterization of feeding bottles based on the most promising and reliable indices used to quantitatively assess feeding skills in clinical applications. Thirty healthy newborns have been fed with two different bottles instrumented with a device for feeding monitoring. Their impact on feeding performance is objectively assessed and discussed. The approach presented here, even if preliminary, paves the way to a new method for functional characterization of feeding bottles. Further studies may allow to confirm our analyses with a higher number of bottles and infants.
营养吸吮是确保婴儿在生命最初几个月获得主要营养的基本过程。当由于病理状况而导致喂养受到损害时，婴儿的生长可能会延迟，从而对整体发育产生级联效应。虽然文献研究了有喂养问题的婴儿的营养吸吮发育，例如严重早产儿或出生体重低的婴儿，但很少有研究评估不同的奶瓶在多大程度上可能会影响健康新生儿的喂养表现。本工作提出了一种基于最有前途和可靠的指数的奶瓶功能特征化方法，这些指数用于在临床应用中定量评估喂养技能。已经用喂养监测装置对 30 名健康新生儿进行了两种不同奶瓶的喂养。客观评估并讨论了它们对喂养表现的影响。这里提出的方法虽然初步的，但为奶瓶的功能特征化开辟了新的方法。进一步的研究可能会允许用更多的奶瓶和婴儿来确认我们的分析。
