Sentences with phrase «of solitary infant sleep»

While advocates of solitary infant sleeping arrangements have claimed any number of benefits of infant sleeping alone, the truth o the matter is, few, if any, of these supposed benefits have been shown to be true through scientific studies.

Not exact matches

This advice improves support of the physiologically vulnerable infant by a responsive parent, and ideally will help parents avoid controversial practices of sleep training, «cry it out» methods, or solitary infant sleep.

A comparison of the sleep - wake patterns of co-sleeping and solitary infants.

A double standard in assessing the causes and solutions for solitary sleeping - crib sleeping, infant deaths, and any and all forms of co-sleeping infant deaths is typically practiced.

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.

Adapted from: Maximizing the chances of Safe Infant Sleep in the Solitary and Cosleeping (Specifically, Bed - sharing) Contexts, by James J. McKenna, Ph.D..

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.

Moreover, that measuring solitary infant sleep, in the context of bottle feeding is appropriate is ethnocentric as solitary sleep is unique to a small corner of the world, the industrialized West..

In our laboratory study of bedsharing compared to solitary sleeping mother - infant dyads bedsharing mothers received more sleep in minutes than did solitary sleeping mothers (Mosko et al 1997).

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.

There is evidence that this arrangement decreases the risk of SIDS by as much as 50 % 64,66,142,143 and is safer than bed - sharing64, 66,142,143 or solitary sleeping (when the infant is in a separate room).53, 64 In addition, this arrangement is most likely to prevent suffocation, strangulation, and entrapment, which may occur when the infant is sleeping in the adult bed.

Certainly infants sleeping separated from their caregivers at night (solitary room sleeping), infants sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant safe co-sleeping, breastfeeding and infants sleeping on their backs (supine).

This advice improves support of the physiologically vulnerable infant by a responsive parent, and ideally will help parents avoid controversial practices of sleep training, «cry it out» methods, or solitary infant sleep.