OBJECTIVE To examine differences in feeding among children with cerebral palsy (CP) who varied in the severity of their oral motor involvement; to examine longitudinal change in feeding behaviours for different severity groups. METHOD Twenty-three children with CP participated (mean age = 4.53 years at the first time point). Feeding data were collected from parent questionnaires at 6 month in...

This review article uses the Canadian Model of Occupational Performance (CMOP) as a theoretical framework to organize a discussion of the complexities of infant feeding when the infant has congenital heart disease (CHD). Literature from many fields indicates that feeding supports the physical, cognitive, and affective development of infants within their various environmental contexts. Many infa...

Conflict of interest: non-existent extensor posturing and missing or incomplete oral reflexes 4.5. In addition, difficulties may occur in carrying out oral motor skills such as: lingual mobility alterations, exaggerated jaw opening, insufficient lip closure and reduction of fat deposits in the cheeks. These alterations affect remaining sucking strength and therefore result in a loss of rhythm a...

Numerous factors have been reported to influence lactation. The role they play is hard to assess, and is generally based on either clinical impressions or inclusive evidence. Views on the importance of certain factors are conflicting, and from time to time a different factor is regarded as the most significant. Thus in the past different remedies have been advocated for difficulties in breast f...

BACKGROUND Difficulty with feeding is common during early childhood. Behavioral techniques have shown considerable utility for difficult feeding, although large-scale studies of behavioral parenting interventions with typically developing young children, and in group formats, are limited. OBJECTIVE The current study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a group-based, behavioral family interventi...

Aim: To examine the medical and social factors involved in the presentation of neonates in the first 14 days of life to a paediatric emergency department (PED) and outcome following attendance. Methods: Retrospective study of all attendances of neonates in the first 14 days of life to a PED during two separate three month periods in summer and winter 2010-2011. Data were collected from PED comp...

OBJECTIVES UK guidance advises HIV-positive women to abstain from breast feeding. Although this eliminates the risk of postnatal vertical transmission of HIV, the impact of replacement feeding on mothers is often overlooked. This qualitative study examines, for the first time in the UK, decision-making about infant feeding among African women living with HIV. METHODS Between 2010 and 2011, we...

Background Delays in gross motor development, sensory processing issues, and organic and behavioral problems are known to interfere in the development of feeding skills (FS); and-therefore-in the success of the process of feeding a child. Children with feeding difficulties (FD) commonly present inadequacy of FS. Objectives Assessment of five FS in Brazilian children with FD, and search of ass...

OBJECTIVE To determine the occurrence of clinical signs of dysphagia in infants with acute viral bronchiolitis, to compare the respiratory parameters during deglutition, and to ensure the intra- and inter- examiners agreement, as well as to accomplish intra and interexaminators concordance of the clinical evaluation of the deglutition. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of 42 infants ag...