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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Obstet Gynecol Neonatal Nurs. 2010 Sep;39(5):519–524. doi: 10.1111/j.1552-6909.2010.01173.x

Table 3.

Sucking Variables with significant differences in patterns over the 5 epochs

Variable - Comparison of epoch 1 to other epochs Epoch 2 Epoch 3 Epoch 4 Epoch 5
Number of sucks per epoch* p=0.001 p<0.002 P<0.001 p<0.001
Burst Duration* p<.031 p=.001 p=.008 p=.026
Number of bursts* p=0.111 p=.099 p=.178 p<.001
*

Decrease in all sucking parameters in each epoch compared to the first epoch or first minute of sucking except for number of bursts in epoch 5.