This study assessed the links between maternal sleep and mothers’ perceptions of their attachment relationship with their infant among women at risk for postpartum depression by virtue of having been depressed during pregnancy. Sixty-two mothers completed sleep diaries and questionnaires at 3 and 6 months postpartum. Regression analyses, controlling for depression severity and infant temperamen...

A failure of cardiorespiratory control mechanisms, together with an impaired arousal from sleep response, is believed to play an important role in the final event of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The ‘Triple Risk Model’ describes SIDS as an event that results from the intersection of three overlapping factors: (1) a vulnerable infant, (2) a critical development period in homeostatic ...

OBJECTIVE To compare the total sleep time of premature infant in the presence or absence of reducing sensory and environmental stimuli in the neonatal unit. METHOD Longitudinal study in a Neonatal Intermediate Care Unit of a public hospital in Sao Paulo. The sample consisted of 13 premature infants. We used polysomnograph and unstructured observation for data collection. We analyzed 240 and 1...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of a behavioural sleep intervention with written information about normal sleep on infant sleep problems and maternal depression. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING Well child clinics, Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 156 mothers of infants aged 6-12 months with severe sleep problems according to the parents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Maternal repo...

The focus of this article is on sleep duration and sleep problems in infants and their association with body weight. A retrospective birth cohort of 519 infants was enrolled in a community-based study conducted in Changsha, China. Infant weight and other health-related information were collected during regular standard checkups at the Community Health Service Centers when infants were 1, 3, 6, ...

OBJECTIVES To determine whether a community-delivered intervention targeting infant sleep problems improves infant sleep and maternal well-being and to report the costs of this approach to the healthcare system. DESIGN Cluster randomised trial. SETTING 49 Maternal and Child Health (MCH) centres (clusters) in Melbourne, Australia. PARTICIPANTS 328 mothers reporting an infant sleep problem ...

BACKGROUND Non-supine infant sleep positions put infants at risk for sudden unexpected infant death (SUID). Disparities in safe sleep practices are associated with maternal income and race/ethnicity. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a nutrition supplement program for low-income (≤185% Federal Poverty Level) pregnant and postpartum women. Curren...

The barrel cortex and whisker thalamus preferentially respond to whisker movements during REM sleep in infant rats. Understanding why the brain tunes into sensory signals while it's tuned out in sleep may provide clues about the functions of REM sleep.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Multiple environmental risk factors are associated with sleep-related infant deaths. Little is known about differences in risk factors for deaths occurring in-home and out-of-home. We sought to compare risk factors for in-home and out-of-home infant deaths. METHODS We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of sleep-related infant deaths from 2004 to 2014 in the National...