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

Table 5

Respiratory and sucking rate during the monitored breastfeed and the feed from the experimental teat.

	Burst type	Breast	Teat	^#𝑃 value
	NS	59.2±21.5	55.1±23.9
	^∗𝑃 value	<0.001
	NNS	68.1±22.3	68.8±19.5	0.29
Respiratory rate (breaths/min)	NP	68.7±22.2	66.3±31.8
	^∗𝑃 value	0.55
	NNP	70.2±31.3	70.3±31.0
	^∗𝑃 value	0.81
	NS	89.1±18.8	88.4±28.1
Suck rate (sucks/min)	^∗𝑃 value	<0.001		0.61
	NNS	103.9±21.2	105.7±23.4

NS: nutritive sucking, NNS: non-nutritive sucking, NP: nutritive pausing, and NNP: non-nutritive pausing.
Results are mean ± SD.
^∗𝑃 value compared to NNS.
^#𝑃 value between the breast and teat.