The Transition From Tube to Nipple in the Premature Newborn

Abstract 

Our world is shrinking because of computerized linkages and the mobility of society. Information is shared rapidly around the world. Issues surrounding newborn and infant nursing are global. In efforts to acknowledge the international community, each Newborn and Infant Nursing Review issue will feature a column that highlights care-related issues from a featured country or region of the world. This article focuses on Chile. The topic is one that is global: feeding readiness to transition from tube to oral feedings. Newborn and infant health issues are global ones. To review issues occurring in different areas of the world, a different area of the globe will be featured that addresses Newborn and Infant Nursing Review's theme-oriented topic. This month, the Children's Hospital of Santiago, Chile, will be featured. Our guest authors are Enfermera (nurse) Patricia Fernández Díaz and Enfermera (nurse) Marjorie Rosales Valdebenito.

Keywords: Premature neonate, Coordination suck swallow, Oral feeding