Comment on David Haig’s ‘Troubled sleep’

Night waking among breastfeeding mothers and infants Conflict , congruence or both ?

Thank you for the privilege of commenting on David Haig’s interesting and timely proposal ‘Troubled sleep: night waking, breastfeeding, and parent– offspring conflict’. Haig’s main hypothesis, written quite superbly, is a simple one. He argues that frequent night waking to breastfeed poses a significant challenge to mothers sleep and is the infant’s way of prolonging lactational amenorrhea. Spe...

Night waking among breastfeeding mothers and infants

Thank you for the privilege of commenting on David Haig’s interesting and timely proposal ‘Troubled sleep: night waking, breastfeeding, and parent– offspring conflict’. Haig’s main hypothesis, written quite superbly, is a simple one. He argues that frequent night waking to breastfeed poses a significant challenge to mothers sleep and is the infant’s way of prolonging lactational amenorrhea. Spe...

Troubled sleep: A response to commentaries

Family relationships and troubled sleep among U.S. adults: examining the influences of contact frequency and relationship quality.

Sleep is essential for health and daily functioning, and social relationships may be a key social factor influencing sleep, yet sleep has been understudied in the literature on social relationships and health. This study used data from the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States to examine associations between troubled sleep and family contact, social support, and strain. Re...

Troubled sleep

Disrupted sleep is probably the most common complaint of parents with a new baby. Night waking increases in the second half of the first year of infant life and is more pronounced for breastfed infants. Sleep-related phenotypes of infants with Prader-Willi and Angelman syndromes suggest that imprinted genes of paternal origin promote greater wakefulness whereas imprinted genes of maternal origi...