title: Eating as a neurodevelopmental process for high-risk newborns.
abstract: Many high-risk and preterm infants have difficulty with successful feeding and subsequent optimal growth during their stay in the neonatal intensive care unit as well as in the months after discharge. Environmental, procedural, and medical issues necessary for treatment of the hospitalized infant present challenges for the development of successful eating skills. Emerging data describe eating as a predictable neurodevelopmental process that depends on the infant's organization of physiologic processes, motor tone and movement, level of arousal, and ability to simultaneously regulate these processes.
authors: JFK Partners Center for Family and Infant Interaction, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, 13121 East 19th Avenue, Aurora, CO USA. Joy.Browne@childrenscolorado.org
authors: Joy V
authors: JV
authors: Browne
authors: Erin Sundseth
authors: ES
authors: Ross
mesh_terms: D002490:Central Nervous System / Q000254:growth & development*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000254:growth & development*; D012306:Risk