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

Table 4

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

	Burst	Breast	Teat	^#𝑃 value
	NS	8.9 (4.5, 18.3)	5.9 (3.6, 11.7)	0.001
Sucking duration (s)	NNS	4.5 (3.1, 7.1)	2.7 (2.0, 4.9)	0.41
	^∗𝑃 value	0.001	0.001
	NP	3.2 (1.9, 5.7)	2.8 (1.8, 4.5)	0.99
Pause duration (s)	^∗𝑃 value	0.001	0.001
	NNP	2.9 (2.2, 4.1)	3.8 (2.2, 6.1)	1.0
	^∗𝑃 value	0.001	0.001

NS: nutritive sucking, NNS: nonnutritive sucking, NP: nutritive pausing, and NNP: non-nutritive pausing.
Results are median (interquartile range).
^∗𝑃 value compared to NS.
^#𝑃 value between the breast and teat.