Sentences with phrase «studies about infant sleep»

It's amazing how much we've learned in just the past 30 years through scientific studies about infant sleep.

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Read more about API's response to the recently published Pediatrics study on «behavioral infant sleep intervention» that's garnering headlines that sleep training is safe.

One study found that the average young infant spends 5.7 hours / day in a car seat or similar sitting device.126 However, there are multiple concerns about using sitting devices as a usual infant sleep location.

While these reported interventions target the infant, other interventions target the mother - infant interaction48 or the whole family (rather just the mother) 49,50 to improve parental skills by providing practical parental care techniques (such as sleeping habits and feeding) in combination with psychoeducation about the postpartum period and mindfulness techniques.48 This set of studies have shown positive results such that maternal depression, anxiety scores48 and baby crying times, 48,50 were reduced.

All the parents who participated in this study were selected because they had complaints about their infants» sleep habits.

Because of concerns about safety of the supine sleep position for infants, this study was conducted to determine if infants sleeping in the supine position in the first 6 months of life (peak risk period for SIDS) are at greater risk for specific non-SIDS adverse health consequences compared with those placed to sleep prone.

This study provides important new information about the safety of supine sleeping for infants through age 6 months.

Both pediatric and popular knowledge about babies» sleep maturation and regulation is based upon studies of formula - fed infants sleeping alone.

The 15 - year - old company has tried to educate parents about safe sleep practices, and a portion of every product's sale goes to First Candle / SIDS Alliance and the Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths.

She has undertaken studies about how massage therapy can help infants of mothers experiencing depression, or how sleep problems in infants decrease following massage therapy, while weight can increase after positive touch interaction.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

While there have been previous surveys of American mothers about their infants» sleep position, this new study is the first to examine behavior theory factors as potential causes for placing an infant on their back or not.

Another recent study found about one in eight sudden and sleep - related deaths among infants occur when they're put to sleep on sofas (see Reuters Health story of October 13, 2014 here: http://reut.rs/1HGizPw).