18Feb
Usually it is seen the premature babies find problem in the learning process of eating. A new and special pacifier helps to solve the problem. It plays prerecorded songs and as a result the baby speed up with the process.
The technology of pacifier is simple. When the baby sucks it properly, he or she is rewarded with a song that is sung by the mother.
Senior author of the study Dr Nathalie Maitre said the premature babies need to figure out how to coordinate with sucking, breathing and also how to swallow their own saliva, which is a difficult and tiring task.
Maitre is the director of the neonatal intensive-care unit follow-up clinics at Vanderbilt University Children’s Hospital. She added that the non-nutritive sucking used in the NICU for past several years helps the babies to improve sucking.
However, she and her colleagues wanted to figure out whether the babies can learn faster as in many cases the new born is kept in the hospital for longer period due to their inability to eat well.
She arranged commercially available pacifier approved by FDA and has a sensor to detect the baby is sucking properly and with good strength that results activating a prerecorded song or story. Mom’s voices were recorded in it. It was found babies ate twice faster than before with the pacifier.
The new study was published in the Pediatrics journal on February 17 and Maitre has no connection with the pacifier manufacturers. She was also not funded by the companies for her research.
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