Title: Looking for cues – infant communication on hunger and satiation during milk feeding
| Authors: | N. Shloim; C.M.J.L. Vereijken; P. Blundell; M.M. Hetherington |
| Published: | 2016 |
| Journal: | Appetite |
This recent study aimed to explore feeding cues in milk-fed infants and to examine if such cues vary by mode of feeding. The study found that infants communicate engagement and disengagement feeding cues during the course of a meal. In addition, encouraging mothers to identify hunger and satiety cues was found to potentially result in better communication and better interactions between mothers and their infant, leading to more responsive feeding. With this paper, we may say that supporting mothers and empowering them to be able to identify and interpret feeding cues is likely to promote more responsive feeding and may result in a better quality experience of feeding between mothers and their infants.