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Main points: swallowing and sucking as separate phenomena, their progressive integration with each other and with breathing, functions during late pregnancy, mouthing and similarities with nonnutritive sucking, swallowing, and sucking and mouthing indicators of state
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Piontelli, A., Ceriani, F., Fabietti, I., Fogliani, R., Restelli, E., Kustermann, A. (2015). Swallowing, Sucking, and Mouthing. In: Development of Normal Fetal Movements. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-5373-1_5
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