OBJECTIVES To determine sleep position variation during the first 6 months of life and to identify risk factors for prone sleeping. DESIGN Cohort study of healthy term newborns recruited from November 1995 to September 1996 and followed up to age 6 months. Pediatricians were surveyed about sleep position advice. At recruitment, all parents were instructed to avoid prone sleeping. Parents were...

INTRODUCTION In developed countries, public campaigns promoting recommendations on safe infant sleep increased adherence to the supine sleeping position to more than 70% and, at the same time, reduced the incidence of sudden infant death syndrome by 53%. OBJETIVE To determine the impact, at 60 days of life, of an educational intervention conducted in maternity centers aimed at improving adher...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES To explore and describe how parents of preterm and/or sick infants in neonatal care perceive their sleep. BACKGROUND Parents experience many stressful situations when their newborn infant is preterm and/or sick. This affects bonding. By developing more family-centred care units with single-family rooms, parents are given the opportunity to stay and care for their newborn i...

Goals for the present study were to (a) describe the sleep of healthy new mothers over a 6-month postpartum period, (b) examine how sleep quality relates to daytime levels of fatigue and sleepiness, and (c) evaluate the relationship between mothers' and infants' sleep parameters. The sample consisted of 37 healthy, partnered, first-time mothers who had experienced full-term vaginal birth and ha...

The interaction between cardiac and respiratory activities is investigated in preterm infant sleep using an advanced nonlinear method (visibility graph) some important characteristics are shown to be significantly different across states, which has not been studied before.

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...

Sudden infant death syndrome is the leading cause of death in infancy, but its pathophysiological mechanism has been elusive. Sudden death in adults is a common phenomenon, but the etiology in many cases remains unknown at autopsy. We hypothesize that maladaptive sympathetic bias is the explanatory mechanism that links many cases of sudden demise among adults and infants as companion syndromes....

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 eating syndrome is a common disorder in eating behaviors that occurs in close relation to the night time sleep cycle. although eating disorders are common in society, night eating syndrome has been left neglected by health care professionals. in this report we present a case of eating disorder that exhibits some novel features of night eating syndrome. our case was a progressed type of ea...

OBJECTIVES Inadequate sleep during infancy is associated with adverse outcomes for infants and families. We sought to improve sleep behaviors and duration through a responsive parenting (RP) intervention designed for obesity prevention. METHODS The Intervention Nurses Start Infants Growing on Healthy Trajectories (INSIGHT) study is a randomized trial comparing a RP intervention with a safety ...