Sentence examples for rhythmic sucking from inspiring English sources
She is feeding Lulu, the shadows of the tree's leaves flickering over her bared breast and the baby's head moving with its rhythmic sucking.
Abadie et al. proposed that dysfunction of the brainstem region controlling the rhythmic reflex of sucking and swallowing, cardiorespiratory, pharyngeal, and laryngeal functions may contribute to the severe feeding and respiratory disorders seen in infants with PRS.
Qureshi et al. [ 7] quantified rhythmic suckle feeding in 16 infants with bottle feeding at 1 to 4 days of age and again at 1 month and observed that suck rate increased significantly from 55/min in the immediate postnatal period to 70/min by the end of the first month.
Listen for rhythmic, regular sucking that will let you know the baby has latched properly.
Furthermore, syllables may derive from cycles of rhythmic opening and closing of the jaw involved in chewing, sucking, and licking, which take on communicative significance as lip smacks, tongue smacks, and teeth chatters (MacNeilage, 1998).
Finger sucking, thumb sucking, and sucking on a pacifier (dummy, comforter) are considered non-nutritive sucking habits.
He watched her passport rise gradually out of the back pocket of her jeans in time with the rhythmic bobbing of her buttocks as she sucked him.
