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

Table 6

Vacuum relationships during the monitored breastfeed and the feed from the experimental teat.

	Burst type	Breast	Teat	^#𝑃 value
	NS	−68.4(−92.3,−47.2)	−32.4(−40.5,−25.3)	<0.001
	^∗𝑃 value	0.02	<0.001
	NNS	−52.9(−89.9,−31.8)	−21.4(−29.7,−15.5)	<0.001
Mean vacuum (mmHg)	NP	−15.3(−28.2,−6.7)	−7.9(−11.3,−4.7)	<0.001
	^∗𝑃 value	<0.001	<0.001
	NNP	−14.0(−29.7,−8.3)	−6.9(−8.0,−5.4)	<0.001
	^∗𝑃 value	<0.001	<0.001

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