Sentences with phrase «deep sleep infants»

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An infant's deep and light sleep cycle is about an hour long.

Large amounts of alcohol in breast milk can trigger drowsiness, deep sleep, weakness and abnormal weight gain in infants; moms may also experience issues with their milk ejection reflex.

We know many mothers bring their baby into bed with them at night.1 Bed sharing makes breastfeeding easier2 and breastfeeding mothers get more sleep.3 It also allows mother - baby interaction to continue throughout the night and may protect the infant against the long periods of deep sleep thought to contribute to SIDS.4, 5

Not only is the deep sleep required to sleep through the night actually a recognized factor in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), but babies who sleep through the night are also not nursing to stimulate breastmilk production, thus their mother's milk may begin to dry up.

Lavender, after all, is shown in sleep studies to help both infants and adults sleep longer and deeper.

It is likely that prone is the normal sleeping position for infants [33] and offers the deepest, most restful sleep [34,35,36,37].

McKenna's theories are relevant to SIDS because infants sleeping next to their mothers have been found to spend less time in the deepest stages of sleep than babies sleeping alone.

Reputable parenting site AskDrSears.com explains that unlike adults, who normally go quickly from light sleep into deep sleep, infants take longer to enter that stage.

Studies show that EXCESS levels of alcohol may lead to, «drowsiness, deep sleep, weakness and decreased linear growth in infant» (Hale, 2010 p. 382).

Mostly infants wake up because it is in their best interest to do so as their neurobiology is not designed for sustained, deep and consolidated sleep at young ages, before six months of age.

Bedsharing breastfeeding mothers and infants spend more of their nighttime sleep in lighter rather than deeper stages of sleep.

Not only is the physiology or sensitivity of the mother to the baby, and the baby to the mother completely enhanced if breastfeeding and if routinely bedsharing, i.e. each reacting to each others sounds and movements and touches compared to the bottle or formula fed, bedsharing mothers and infant, but breastfeeding mothers and infants arouse more frequently with respect to each others arousals, and breastfeeding mothers and infants compared with bottle feeding mother - infant pairs spend significantly more time in lighter rather than deeper stages of sleep.

Variability in breathing patterns of infants is good and a sign of health, ordinarily, and such variability is often associated with more substantial inhalations of oxygen, leading to shorter apneas in deep stage of sleep from which awakenings can be difficult (see Richards et al 1998).

The latter stages of sleep i.e. deeper sleep, is known to be more difficult for infants to arouse from in order to terminate life - threatening apneas or breathing pauses.

This could potentially help them avoid having to confront a more difficult challenge of arousing at night from a much deeper stage of sleep in order to terminate an apnea or breathing pause, which is especially difficult for arousal - deficient infants (see Mosko et al 1997 this website, and McKenna et al 2005 or McKenna et al 2007).

Tragically, these culturally based practices led to the deaths of possibly as many as 600 thousand infants from SIDS, in part because our society promoted a kind of premature deep, uninterrupted sleep, in sensory - deprived (solitary) environments for which the naturally vulnerable and neurologically immature human infant was not and is not, biologically prepared.

After the initial months, babies gain the ability to sleep deeper and this eliminates much of the baby crying in sleep which is characteristic of infants.

7,23 The breastfed infant is more likely to sleep supine and suckle frequently through the night, naturally achieving the potentially SIDS reducing goals of less deep sleep and frequent brief arousals.

This is thought to reduce the risk of SIDS, because deep sleep can cause infants to fail to respond to life - threatening situations.

Maintenance of breastfeeding, as well as deep restorative sleep stages, may be greatly compromised for new mothers who cope with infant feedings by supplementing in an effort to get more sleep.

Drowsiness, deep sleep, weakness, and abnormal weight gain in the infant, and the possibility of decreased milk - ejection reflex in the mother.

As a researcher in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Professor McKenna explains that these small transient arousals may lessen a baby's susceptibility to some forms of SIDS which are thought to be caused by failure to arouse from deep sleep to re-establish breathing patterns.

It may also help to prevent SIDS by preventing the infant from entering into deep sleep states.

I might have resisted becoming an all - access pacifier to my infant if I'd known this: My preschooler actually spends a fairly large percentage of the night in deep sleep, says Dr. Owens.

Young toddlers between ages 1 and 2 still sleep very much like an infant — more light sleep than deep sleep and frequent night waking.

The reason is that while adults can usually go directly into the state of deep sleep, infants in the early months enter sleep through an initial period of light sleep.

This «failure to rouse» has been discussed as a potential mechanism behind SIDS — infants reach too deep a level of sleep and they are simply incapable of coming out of it, kind of like entering a coma.

A few infants may not have a deep sleep in the back - to - sleep position.

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