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Some safety issues are known, so certainly they should be followed as I have outlined in answering many of these questions But
what any infants sleep location socially or psychologically means to parents is very powerful and it affects the overall safety and satisfaction that different families have to the same sleeping arrangement and environment.
Not exact matches
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What is Normal, Healthy
Infant Sleep?»
Mindell wonders, adding that understanding how some
infants thrive on less
sleep is the next step in research: «to figure out why that is, and
what's the consequence.»
What we need to do is calculate the relative riskiness of an
infant sleeping in an adult bed versus a crib.
So
what is within the range of normal
infant sleep?
The latest safe
infant sleep recommendations are based on
what experts have learned and are known risk - factors for
sleep - related
infant deaths.
If your
infant's night waking have left you much too acquainted with the wee hours of the morning, you're likely wondering
what you can do to get her to
sleep for longer stretches.
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Infant Sleep 101 Come learn about the biology of sleep in babies, from what current neuroscience and infant mental health tel
Infant Sleep 101 Come learn about the biology of sleep in babies, from what current neuroscience and infant mental health tell
Sleep 101 Come learn about the biology of
sleep in babies, from what current neuroscience and infant mental health tell
sleep in babies, from
what current neuroscience and
infant mental health tel
infant mental health tells us.
What Macall Gordon did show is that supposed «
sleep experts» are recommending CIO with very young babies, but the studies that purport to demonstrate that CIO is safe did not look at
infants or did not seperate
infants from older babies in their results and also only looked at a very small number of factors in determining its effectiveness / safety (not assessing the physiological or psychological effects).
From there, they can tell you
what you can do, give your baby a checkup to make sure nothing is medically wrong, and if necessary, direct you to an
infant sleep expert.
For the rest of us
what our
infants need more than anything else is our undivided attention and love not a ticker tape of how much they poop, pee, eat, move or
sleep.
Aims and Objectives: Looking at
what is normal in healthy
infants» feeding,
sleep and behaviour, and how to support parents through challenges in these areas.
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What is «normal
infant sleep» really and why does it matter?
Remember, often
what parents interpret as a toddler (or an
infant) fighting
sleep is actually them fighting separation from their primary attachment figures.
I am curious to know
what is the appropriate amount of
sleep for a child in the
infant - toddler years.
But when you're searching the web for answers about
sleep safety - you need to know
what the SAFEST
sleep options are - those which decrease your baby's risks of Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and Sudden Unexpected
Infant Death (SUID).
and you can't answer that if you don't know
what normal
infant sleep looks like.
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Infant sleep patterns vary, but child health professionals give parents a general idea of
what to expect at different ages.
My daughter was
what I would consider to be a very difficult sleeper as an
infant, and I was extremely
sleep - deprived for months, especially as a single mom with very little help.
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Babies have shorter
sleep cycles —
Infants spend much of their
sleep in
what is termed Rapid Eye Movement (REM)
sleep.
Mother -
infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden
infant death syndrome:
what biological anthropology has discovered about normal
infant sleep and pediatric
sleep medicine
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What sleeping babies hear: A functional MRI study of interparental conflict and
infants» emotion processing.
My wife and I were shocked when we read
what pediatric
sleep researchers had to say about normal
sleep for human
infants and the idea that
infants must «self - soothe.»
Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or
infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe
infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to
infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just
what babies depend on for maximum health.
There is no one way to arrange your baby's
sleep, before you retire for the night and how well one approach works is, as always, determined by factors pertinent to each family depending on
what parents want, hope for, and see as reflecting the kind of relationship they want to share with each other and with their
infants and other children.
I argue that these models inappropriately prioritize
infant sleep consolidation at the expense of
what is really important for
infants in the first year of life and that is breastfeeding, which requires babies to wake up frequently.
To
what extent are parents knowledgeable about safety issues and / or how to minimize the chance of injuries to
infants or children during
sleep?
The lighter
sleep, that all of these maternal - induced arousals promote, gives rise to
what we consider to be «safer
sleep» for
infants especially for the level of neurological immaturity through which all human
infants must pass.
The Scientific Perspective McKenna, J., Ball H., Gettler L., Mother -
infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and SIDS: What Biological Anthropologists Have Learned About Normal Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Med
infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and SIDS:
What Biological Anthropologists Have Learned About Normal
Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Med
Infant Sleep and Pediatric
Sleep Medicine.
Further, I worry about the message being given unfairly (if not immorally) to mothers; that is, no matter who you are, or
what you do, your
sleeping body is no more than an inert potential lethal weapon against which neither you nor your
infant has any control.
As regards how many
infants have
what is considered a «
sleep problem» in western society that, too, is hard to ascertain exactly as it depends on how one defines an «
infant sleep problem» and who is doing the defining; but roughly speaking somewhere between 40 - 60 % of western babies are «said» to have
sleep problems to solve.
personal preferences, influenced by recent Western cultural values and social ideology, NOT studies of the natural biology and needs of the human
infant have argued against babies arousing at night to feed a lot; and, indeed, the «
sleep like a baby» or «shush the baby is
sleeping» model, while some kind of western ideal is NOT
what babies are designed to do nor experience, and it is definitely not in their own biological or emotional or social best interest.
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.
What is the basis by which parents make decisions about how and where their
infants and children
sleep?
Like human taste buds which reward us for eating
what's overwhelmingly critical for survival i.e. fats and sugars, a consideration of human
infant and parental biology and psychology reveal the existence of powerful physiological and social factors that promote maternal motivations to cosleep and explain parental needs to touch and
sleep close to baby.
Indeed, the rhetoric is nothing less than threatening, of any and all bedsharing parents even when risks are minimized; and the zeal and imprecise language which is being used by many technicians involved in
what is considered «safe
infant sleep» campaigns is over simplified to the point that it is inaccurate, misleading, and inappropriate, and is itself dangerous on many different levels, both politically and scientifically (see Gettler and McKenna 2010 available on this website).
Contrary to
what many pediatric
sleep researchers claim, or at least, lead parents to believe, the consolidation of human
infant sleep is not
what is important biologically for an
infant especially in the first six months of life.
Well, I think
sleep training with a 13 - month - old is completely different from
what we did when BabyC was an
infant.
Platycephally (flattening) of the head is not necessarily if at all caused by
infant sleeping on their backs but by how long babies lean their heads against hard objects or,
what I call, «transformer baby furniture, or furniture that can change into many different pieces (like those transformer toys in the eighties and nineties) making it easy to keep babies heads against hard surfaces for an excessive amounts of time therein reshaping the
infant's head.
My first studies aimed to demonstrate that only by deriving
infant sleep measurements in the mother
infant cosleeping - breastfeeding context could we begin to understand more accurately
what constitutes human - wide, species - wide, normal, healthy
infant sleep.
The push by health professionals for the early consolidation of
infant sleep is a recent socio - cultural construct associated with bottle - feeding cultures and has little to do with
what is in an
infant's best interest, especially one that breastfeeds.
McKenna wrote a peer - reviewed commentary piece recently called «There is No Such Thing as
Infant Sleep, There is No Such Thing as Breastfeeding, There is Only Breastsleeping» to present the concept, which is exactly
what it sounds like: Bed - sharing combined with breastfeeding throughout the night.
If there is a hotter topic than
infant sleep in the parenting world, I don't know
what it is.
Since that time I have educated myself about
infant and toddler
sleep and
what is normal, and have learned that we as parents do not need to (and shouldn't) fight our God - given instincts and intuition.
Of course people need enough
sleep, but the question of
what that is and whether
infants are getting enough is the premise.