Neonatal ICU survivors often face challenges with oral eating, swallowing difficulties, and various aerodigestive issues, and commonly need chronic nasogastric tube feeding or gastrostomy feeding, which escalates socioeconomic burdens, hospital stays, neurodevelopmental delays, and parental suffering. This proposal addresses a vital need in neonatal gastroenterology by studying unique swallowing mechanisms and defining the basis for preventative and corrective therapies through new translational research initiatives via a randomized controlled trial using the novel intervention initiative- Parent Implemented Oral Nutrition, Eating, and Esophageal reflexes Reintegration (PIONEER©) protocol.
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Presence or Absence of Gastrostomy Tube
Timeframe: around 4 weeks after initial diagnostic study or until discharge (can be sooner)
Change in Aerodigestive Reflexes
Timeframe: around 4 weeks after initial diagnostic study