Table 1.

Demographic profiles of the newborns enrolled in the study

Group No.	Intervention	Total	Male	Female	Age (hr)	Weight (kg)
1	Breast feeding	50	28	22	25.31±11.01	3.06±0.425
2	25% Sucrose	50	29	21	34.36±18.08	2.95±0.427
3	Distilled water	50	26	24	28.58±26.21	3.08±0.532
4	Nonnutritive sucking	50	23	27	25.62±26.84	3.11±0.573
5	Rocking	50	28	22	23.82±14.80	2.85±0.460
6	None (control)	50	25	25	22.31±11.12	3.00±0.481
	Total	300	159	141	26.66±18.02	3.00±0.483

Values are presented as number or mean±standard deviation.