Infant Sleep and Feeding

Rosen, Libby Averill

doi:10.1111/j.1552-6909.2008.00299.x

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“…As in previous research (Rosen, 2008), we found that breastfeeding mothers were more likely to be comfortable with night-waking and to embrace bed-sharing as a method to protect maternal sleep. They articulated a narrative of infant sleep in which frequent waking is normal The literature on postpartum depression suggests that management of parental expectations prior to birth may prevent frustration and unfulfilled expectations of parental ability and self-efficacy (Ball, 2003;Kennedy et al, 2007).…”

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“…The predominant view is that formula feeding promotes infant sleep while breastfed infants are too demanding, feed too frequently, and do not allow their mothers sufficient sleep through the night (Ball, Hooker, & Kelly, 1999;Brown & Harries, 2015). In both the UK and the US, many parents give night-waking as the reason they switched to formula (Douglas & Hill, 2013) and the idea that feeding the infant formula before bed will help the whole family to sleep better is widely accepted (Rosen, 2008). Mothers are advised by peers and family to introduce formula or solid foods to the infant diet in order to promote longer periods of nocturnal sleep (Clayton, Li, Perrine, & Scanlon, 2013;Crocetti, Dudas, & Krugman, 2004).…”

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“…Currently, most interventions for infant sleep emphasize the negative effects that altered sleep patterns may have on parents and infants and focus on increasing sleep duration (Douglas & Hill, 2013). The language used, focused as it is on sleep disruption and deprivation, creates a negative association between infancy and parental sleep (Rosen, 2008). The dominant social expectation among parents, family members and health professionals is that the infant should sleep through the night alone from an early stage (Ball, 2003;Galbally, Lewis, McEgan, Scalzo, & Islam, 2013).…”

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Exploring Maternal Perceptions of Infant Sleep and Feeding Method Among Mothers in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

Rudzik

Ball

2015

Matern Child Health J

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. (2016) 'Exploring maternal perceptions of infant sleep and feeding method among mothers in the United Kingdom : a qualitative focus group study.', Maternal and child health journal., 20 (1). pp. 33-40. Further information on publisher's website:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-015-1798-7Publisher's copyright statement:The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10995-015-1798-7.Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. In a context with strong rhetorical support for breastfeeding in the health system, yet extremely low rates of breastfeeding after hospital discharge, UK women's decisions about infant feeding reflect the reality of competing priorities in their lives, including obtaining adequate sleep. Popular wisdom in the UK tightly links breastfeeding and inadequate night-time sleep. Mothers are advised by peers and family to introduce formula or solid foods to infants to promote longer sleep. The first objective of this study was to investigate women's understandings of the nature of infant sleep and their perceptions of links between infant feeding method and sleep. The second was to explore how these perceptions influence infant feeding and sleep practices in the first year. Underpinning our work is the understanding that infant care choices result from tradeoffs by which mothers strive to balance infant-and self-care. We conducted seven focus groups with mothers of infants in two regions of the UK. Verbatim transcripts were thematically coded and emergent themes were identified. We found clearly diverging narratives between breastfeeding and formula-feeding mothers. Breastfeeding mothers viewed the fragmentary nature of infant sleep as natural, while mothers who were formula feeding felt this was a problem to be fixed. The strategies and approaches used to promote infant and maternal sleep in each group were aligned with this underlying perception of how infant sleep works. Maternal perceptions of the nature of infant sleep and its relation to infant feeding method impact infant care practices in the first year of life. SignificanceParents of infants under a year of age desire to obtain adequate sleep for themselves and their infants. Infant feeding and sleep are tightly connected in popular perception, yet little research has directly explored women's experiences of infant feeding and sleep. This study reveals that a divergence of perceptions of infant sleep and feeding between feeding groups underlies the use of different strategies for night-time s...

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Exploring Maternal Perceptions of Infant Sleep and Feeding Method Among Mothers in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

Rudzik

Ball

2015

Matern Child Health J

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“…'The saying 'I slept like a baby' is reflective of the lack of understanding about patterns of infant sleep exhibited in the neonatal period' p711 [1].…”

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Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period

Russell¹,

Robinson²,

Ball³

2013

TOSLPJ

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Abstract:Coping with sleep disruption is a common difficulty faced by new parents. Here we take a critical, contextual and evolutionary perspective on recent evidence surrounding the development of normal infant sleep in the postnatal period, its relationship with feeding method and the relevance of sleep location. Firstly, we explore the question of defining 'normal' infant sleep, considering the timing of sleep consolidation, cross-cultural and historical perspectives, and the impact of feeding method on infant waking and parental tiredness. In the second part of the review we focus on infant sleep location, physiological and behavioural functioning and sleep safety. We summarise recent research exploring the consequences of alternate infant sleep locations, including in-hospital interventions testing the effect of these sleep locations on outcomes associated with mother-infant proximity. Finally we provide an up-to-date review of SIDS research, including case-control and cross-cultural studies that inform policy-creation and authoritative advice to parents. We find that many researchers still neglect crucial variables affecting infant sleep including sleep location and feeding method and conclude that whilst the field of infant sleep research is well-established, future studies would benefit from consideration of infant evolutionary biology and the heterogeneity of infant care practices, which would lead to valuable new research insights in understanding normal infant sleep.

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“…As for sleep, newborns sleep at random hours throughout the day and do not have an organized circadian rhythm upon their birth [8]. The consolidation of a continuous 6 h nocturnal sleep is developed approximately between the ages of 4 to 6 months [8].…”

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Breastfeeding may improve nocturnal sleep and reduce infantile colic: Potential role of breast milk melatonin

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Infant Sleep and Feeding

Cited by 27 publications

References 39 publications

Exploring Maternal Perceptions of Infant Sleep and Feeding Method Among Mothers in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

Exploring Maternal Perceptions of Infant Sleep and Feeding Method Among Mothers in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period

Breastfeeding may improve nocturnal sleep and reduce infantile colic: Potential role of breast milk melatonin

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