Rochat et al 9 showed that by delivering a .20 ml of a 12 sucrose solution using a sterile syringe into newborn 's mouth midline the hand-mouth contacts increased with repeated sucrose stimulation and reverted to the baseline with sucrose termination .Barr et all 4 reported that frequency of hand-mouth contact is not related to the nutrition class (carbohydrate / versus amino acid , but to the sweetness of the substance used . In their study they found that sucrose (carbohydrate ) and aspartame...











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