This little one is 5 days old....the speech therapist is illiciting a sucking reflex with his finger which has a little bit of milk on it. This helps to ease the infant into oral feeds (aka bottle feeds)...each time the infant does this the therapist tries to make sure the suck is rhythmical and tries to make the infant last longer with their suck before the tire. Pretty soon this little one will have a suck that is strong enough to feed using a syringe...and then hopefully move to a bottle. This infant is probably getting all of its nutrients through a feeding tube right now...eventually that will be taken out as the infant becomes more efficient on the bottle :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TSfWiGYwfM
This little one has graduated from the video above to syringe feeding with a finger...the finger is there for a couple reasons...1.) it slows down the flow of the liquid 2.) if the baby stops sucking the finger can move inside the mouth triggering a reflux that makes the baby suck again 3.) The finger can move rhythmical giving the baby a tactile cue so that they can regulate their suck into a rhythm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tfIVmKtcv0&feature=related
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