The Bottle Optimization Testing Tiny Little Eaters Study
NCT07665983 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 440
Last updated 2026-07-01
Summary
The researchers will study how babies respond to bottle nipples with different flow rates over a few days, and how this may affect how much milk they drink, their feeding patterns, and their sleep.
Conditions
- Childhood Obesity
Interventions
- BEHAVIORAL
-
Feeding
Following a baseline day (Day 1) in which infants are fed with their typical nipple, infants are exposed to a commercially available nipple with a 30 percent reduced flow rate for three consecutive days (Days 2-4).
Sponsors & Collaborators
-
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
collaborator NIH - lead OTHER
Principal Investigators
-
Amanda Crandall, PhD · University of Michigan
Study Design
- Allocation
- NA
- Purpose
- BASIC_SCIENCE
- Masking
- NONE
- Model
- SINGLE_GROUP
Eligibility
- Min Age
- 4 Months
- Sex
- ALL
- Healthy Volunteers
- Yes
Timeline & Regulatory
- Start
- 2026-06-26
- Primary Completion
- 2028-07-31
- Completion
- 2028-08-31
Countries
- United States
Study Locations
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