ABSTRACT
Purposes:
to describe the feeding profile and analyze the Oral Sensory Motor System of preterm low birth weight who participated or not the Kangaroo method.
Methods:
this is a non-interventional, observational quantitative study with 60 preterm low birth weight. A specific form was used to describe the feeding profile. Evaluations of Oral Sensory Motor System were made by the protocol of Castro(1).
Results:
preterm and low birth weight babies evaluated formed two groups: 30 participants of the Kangaroo Method (G1) and 30 non-participants of this method (G2). They presented Gestational Age 25-36 weeks, which were 34 female and 26 male; 8 children were fed by nasogastric tube, 46 by exclusive breastfeeding, 4 fed through the cup and 1 just by the cup. In the Grupo1,9 (30%) infants showed oral reflexes as expected. In the Group 2, 12 (40%) showed all reflexes.
Conclusion:
this study shows that babies who went through the kangaroo method do not revealed statistically significant difference in relation to the feeding profile and oral sensory motor system, when compared to babies who did not went through this method.
Keywords:
Infant, Newborn; Infant, Premature; Feeding Behavior
