Behavioral and physiological response during feeding in infants with congenital heart disease: a naturalistic study.
Twenty mother-infant dyads, ten with congenital heart disease (CHD) and ten controls, were studied during a naturally occurring feeding episode. Heart and respiratory rate data from a Hewlett Packard Infant Monitor were recorded on a computer while the feeding was videotaped for later scoring. No significant relationship was found between potent disengagement cues and changes in either heart or respiratory rate during feeding. However, the presentation of subtle disengagement cues were observed to be significantly more frequent among infants with CHD. A wide range of individual differences were noted in presentation of disengagement cues and heart and respiratory rates in both groups. No discernable pattern of heart rate or respiratory rate increase or decrease related to subtle or potent disengagement cures was found in either the infants with CHD or the healthy controls.
D000328:Adult; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003463:Cues; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018730:Infant Behavior / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011674:Pulse; D012119:Respiration