Oxygen Saturation and Suck-Swallow-Breathe Coordination of Term Infants during Breastfeeding and Feeding from a Teat Releasing Milk Only with Vacuum

Table 1

Feeding characteristics for the monitored breastfeed and the feed from the experimental teat.

Feeding characteristics	Breast	Teat	𝑃 value
Milk intake (g)	93±36	62±30	0.013
Feed duration (s)	626±173	738±336	0.25
NS duration (s)	263 (212, 373)	264 (128, 318)	0.93
Nutritive transfer rate (g/minute)	23.6±14.8	20.3±13.5	0.59

Results are mean ± SD or median (interquartile range).
NS: nutritive sucking.