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Psychosomatic Medicine 30:151-161 (1968)
© 1968 American Psychosomatic Society

Consistent Individual Differences in the Nutritive Sucking Behavior of the Human Newborn

REUBEN E. KRON M.D.1, JOHANNES IPSEN M.D.1, and KATHARINE E. GODDARD M.D.2

1 Departments of Psychiatry, of Pediatrics, and of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.
2 Departments of Psychiatry, of Pediatrics, and of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.; Present address: Department of Psychiatry, St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, 2600 North Lawrence St., Philadelphia, Pa.

Consistent individual differences between infants were found during repeated measures of nutritive sucking behavior. Sucking pressure was the most discriminating measure. The findings emphasize the importance of appropriate population, nutrient, and feeding schedule in providing reliable measures of newborn behavior.

Submitted on April 28, 1967






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