Oral Feeding Delay Prevention in Preterm Newborns

PARENTALIM practice that strengthens the NIDCAP. It is proposed in a routine way in the NICU since 2019. PARENTALIM supports and monitors parental implication in nursing care. It is led by a speach language therapist specialized in early feeding development who proposes 5 individualized interviews and uses an educational booklet on eating development care with a lot of illustrations and few words.

SOFS is a behavioral practice of orofacial stimulations. Il has been mainly carried out by nurses or a speach language therapist specialized in early feeding development. SOFS has been applied through routine protocol in the NICU until 2018.