Sentences with phrase «of normal infant sleep»

So what is within the range of normal infant sleep?

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First, circumcision is a primal wound that interferes with the maternal / infant bond, disrupts breastfeeding and normal sleep patterns, and undermines the baby's first developmental task of establishing trust.

For the normal baby bald spots due to tearing off the hair, try alternating the way your baby sleeps during naps and at night (Just don't put your baby to sleep belly down, due to the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.)

I hope that some of this information eases some of the common worries regarding, and provides a clearer picture of, normal infant sleep patterns.

She has a wealth of experience regarding postpartum adjustment, including: normal newborn behavior, infant sleep, postnatal recovery, and breastfeeding.

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Many researchers still suspect that whether light sleep is vital for the normal development of the brain in all young mammals and infants.

Positional plagiocephaly, or plagiocephaly without synostosis (PWS), can be associated with supine sleeping position (OR: 2.5).113 It is most likely to result if the infant's head position is not varied when placed for sleep, if the infant spends little or no time in awake, supervised tummy time, and if the infant is not held in the upright position when not sleeping.113, — , 115 Children with developmental delay and / or neurologic injury have increased rates of PWS, although a causal relationship has not been demonstrated.113, 116, — , 119 In healthy normal children, the incidence of PWS decreases spontaneously from 20 % at 8 months to 3 % at 24 months of age.114 Although data to make specific recommendations as to how often and how long tummy time should be undertaken are lacking, supervised tummy time while the infant is awake is recommended on a daily basis.

From a biological point of view, one question begs answering: why or how could 40 - 60 % of otherwise healthy infants have sleep problems to solve and if this is percentage is anything near the truth then the cultural and or scientific models of normal healthy sleep that underlie our cultural ideologies must reflect far more about adults than they do about babies.

Unfortunately when infant sleep research was begun in western countries neither breastfeeding nor infants sleeping in the presence of their caregivers was thought to be appropriate, healthy, or beneficial while solitary, bottle fed babies, and all the measurements derived from solitary sleeping, bottle fed babies was thought to be normal and healthy.

Indeed, I argue that the cultural dismantling of the three basic components of normal human infant sleep i.e. sleep position (on the back for breastfeeding which was changed to prone sleep), feeding method (from breastfeeding to formula or cows milk, bottle feeding) and infant sleep location (from next to the mother within sensory range to nighttime separation, a separate room) fostered and promoted the SIDS epidemic which is was limited to the industrialized, western world.

A more natural, intuitive approach to settling your child, Sleeping Like a Baby will help you understand normal infant sleep at each stage of development, from birth to three years.

Mother - Infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and SIDS: What Biological Anthropology Has Discovered About Normal Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Medicine, by James J. McKenna, Helen Ball and Lee T. Gettler.Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50:133 - 161.

Unfortunately this implies that the pediatric sleep research community (in general) accepts uncritically the mistaken assumption that solitary, bottle - fed infants represent the «normal» and / or «optimal» human infant sleep and feeding arrangement, and the context from which measurements of «normal, infant sleep» can be derived.

I find it unfortunate that we do not support mothers with pertinent information about normal and healthy infant sleep or ways to cope with the challenges of nighttime parenting, and limit the discussion to differences in «parenting styles» and within the framework of misguided cultural expectations and beliefs.

Since you are a very well - educated mother, I wonder if you were ever exposed to some of the scholarly work on infant sleep that says that night wakings are healthy, normal and to be expected, and that babies are «designed» to sleep next to their mother and nurse through the night before becoming a mother and / or before deciding to sleep train?

A review of the evidence relating to the sleep practices of parents and infants over the last 20 years provides interesting reading and challenges normal wisdom related to infant sleep.

But honestly, I am okay with all of this now that I know what normal infant sleep is.

We receive plenty of phone calls at the Lactation Care office from exhausted, sleep - deprived parents with questions about normal infant feeding and sleeping patterns.

Nasal congestion may sound like a simple issue, but it can in fact prove to be extremely dangerous for a newborn infant, because it would not only cause fatigue and irritability, thereby hampering normal growth, but also cause sleep apnea, which causes temporary moments of not breathing when the newborn is asleep.

However, the sleep of infants is also quite erratic, and sometimes children sleep too much compared to normal, the common reasons are they're in the stage of development, teething or getting sick.

Though normal use is not a concern, extended use — and allowing an infant to sleep in such devices, in particular — increases the risk of plagiocephaly.

Remember that sleeping with eyes open is normal with the infants under 12 months of the ages.

Brainstem abnormalities that involve the medullary serotonergic (5 - hydroxytryptamine [5 - HT]-RRB- system in up to 70 % of infants who die from SIDS are the most robust and specific neuropathologic findings associated with SIDS and have been confirmed in several independent data sets and laboratories.37, — , 40 This area of the brainstem plays a key role in coordinating many respiratory, arousal, and autonomic functions and, when dysfunctional, might prevent normal protective responses to stressors that commonly occur during sleep.

Given the well - recognised importance of close contact in establishing breastfeeding, and the need for frequent suckling, anthropologists consider that mother - infant sleep contact is a normal, species - typical, parenting behaviour for humans.

A small sleeping area and the sharing of that space with one or more adults or siblings greatly increases the risk of the infant becoming entrapped in bedding or smothered during normal movements during sleep.

Fact:» [N] ot only is violence in families pervasive but that both the children who are victims of violence and those that witness violence that occurs between their parents suffer a great deal and are themselves at risk of using violence as adults (Jaffe, Wolfe & Wilson, 1990; O'Keefe, 1995; Pagelow, 1993; Saunders, 1994; Johnson, 1996)... infants suffer from having their basic needs for attachment to their mother disrupted or from having the normal routines around sleeping and feeding disrupted... Older children come to see violence as an appropriate way of dealing with conflict... These children can suffer from serious emotional difficulties...»

Most interventions have included parent education about normal sleep and sleep cycles, advice to maximise environmental differences between day and night, and strategies to encourage infant self - settling.7 - 10 Strategies included range from the graduated extinction method described above to encouraging parents to stretch night time feed intervals (in the hope that the infant will self - settle) and encouraging the use of parent - independent sleep cues.

At the clinic, we aim to identify and treat medical causes of infant crying, discuss normal infant sleep and crying patterns, offer parents management strategies to encourage infant settling, help parents to better cope with infant crying, mobilise support for parents and screen for postnatal depression.