Fig. 1: Trajectory of improvement in overall transfer from the start of full oral feeds to full oral feeds between the control infants (solid line) and those who struggled to achieve full oral feeds and later received thickened liquids (dashed line).

Only those infants in the thickened group who achieved full oral feeds during their hospital stay are depicted. The vertical horizontal thickening line indicates the time at which thickening was initiated among the infants struggling to achieve full oral feeds.