Table 5.

Respiratory and sucking rate during the monitored breastfeed and the feed from the experimental teat.

	Burst type	Breast	Teat	# P value
	NS	59.2 ± 21.5	55.1 ± 23.9
	*P value	<0.001
	NNS	68.1 ± 22.3	68.8 ± 19.5	0.29
Respiratory rate (breaths/min)	NP	68.7 ± 22.2	66.3 ± 31.8
	*P value	0.55
	NNP	70.2 ± 31.3	70.3 ± 31.0
	*P value	0.81
	NS	89.1 ± 18.8	88.4 ± 28.1
Suck rate (sucks/min)	*P value	<0.001		0.61
	NNS	103.9 ± 21.2	105.7 ± 23.4

NS: nutritive sucking, NNS: non-nutritive sucking, NP: nutritive pausing, and NNP: non-nutritive pausing.

Results are mean ± SD.

*P value compared to NNS.

^# P value between the breast and teat.