ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 explores the newborn baby suckle in its ordinary and extraordinary existential significance. To feed is a basic capacity of every healthy newborn child, and from this everyday act, newborn consciousness may be investigated. Such inquiry is again brought back to question of the nature of the experiential being of the newborn who requires care in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where feeding may need to be adjusted and compromised in the context of prematurity or medical illness. Methodologically, this chapter is an example of engaging primarily with physiological and observational research to explore the lived meaning of a phenomenon.
