Neonatal Nutrition Research

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A nurse in a hospital chair feeding a baby with the instrumented feeding bottle
Feeding an infant with the instrumented bottle.
Labeled diagram of the instrumented feeding bottle: camera, bottle liner, detachable bottom with pressure sensor and relief valve, and nipple and bottle assembly
The instrumented feeding bottle. Source: Salas AA, et al. Early Hum Dev 2020 (Quantitative assessment of nutritive sucking patterns in preterm infants).
Two line charts of sucking strength and normalized sucking density over a feeding of about 1,400 seconds
Sucking strength and sucking bursts recorded over a single feeding.