Abstract
The achievement of nutrition totally by bottle feeding is a complex process for infants born prematurely. Not only the infant-self (e.g., maturity, health status, and the duration of sucking experience on a pacifier or a nipple) but also the environmental factors (e.g., care giver's sensitivity to the infant's cues and feeding skills, characteristics of bottles and nipples, environmental light, sound, and temperature) may affect the infant's feeding performance. These feeding- related factors within and outside the infant were discussed in the present review. Through this analysis, the contribution of each feeding-related factor to the infant's feeding ability was identified. Recommendations for practitioners to promote the feeding success of preterm infants were also provided.
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