Infancy and childhood represent a time of unparalleled physical growth and cognitive
development. In order for infants and children to reach their linear and neurological growth …

Mastication efficiency is defined as the efficiency of crushing food between the teeth and
manipulating the resulting particles to form a swallowable food bolus. It is dependent on the …

Infants drive many lactation processes and contribute to the changing composition of human
milk through multiple mechanisms. This review addresses the major topics of milk removal; …

The majority of new mothers in the United States use breast pumps in the first 4 months
postbirth in order to achieve their personal human milk feeding goals. Although these …

Aim: The aims of this study were to analyze the relationship between the LATCH score
assessed in the first 24 hours after delivery and non-exclusive breastfeeding at discharge …

Despite the importance of the suck-swallow-breathe reflex during breastfeeding, a large
proportion of our understanding is derived from bottle-feeding studies. Given the differences …

Disclosed herein are biologically inspired, either manual or electronic, portable fluid
expression system to be used for, but not limited to, breast milk expression from nursing …

Intake of a variety of foods increases the likelihood of good general health. From as early as
life in utero, humans are exposed to flavor. Further flavor imprinting occurs via breast milk …

Background: Despite the differences in breastfeeding and bottle-feeding, our understanding
of how suck-swallow-breathe (SSwB), oxygenation, and heart rate patterns change as the …

Objective Knowledge of the breastfeeding swallow is limited by practical challenges.
Radiation exposure to both mother and infant and the radiolucent properties of breastmilk …