A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response

Ohmura, Nami; Okuma, Lana; Truzzi, Anna; Shinozuka, Kazutaka; Saito, Atsuko; Yokota, Susumu; Bizzego, Andrea; Miyazawa, Eri; Shimizu, Masaki; Esposito, Gianluca; Kuroda, Kumi O.

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2022.08.041

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“…For example, caregivers in naturalistic settings show an increase in their own arousal time‐locked to increases in child arousal, and to child distress vocalisations; the more caregivers upregulate arousal in response to child distress, the faster the child calms (Perapoch Amadó et al., in press; Wass et al., 2019; Wass, Phillips, Smith, & Goupil, 2022). This is consistent with other research suggesting that caregivers calm infants more effectively if they first get up and walk while calming the child before sitting—compared to when they remain sitting throughout (Esposito et al., 2013; Ohmura et al., 2022). This is a mixture of first positive and then negative feedback.…”

Section: Part 2—theory—coregulation and Dysregulationsupporting

confidence: 90%

“…When a child is upset, you take action to soothe them. Shouting at a crying child will generally make them cry for longer; but sitting completely still as you calm them is less effective than standing up yourself, picking up the child and walking around the room as you soothe them (Esposito et al., 2013; Ohmura et al., 2022). From this, we can tell that simply staying calm yourself is not the best way to help a child calm down.…”

Section: Why Study Interactions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

Wass,

Greenwood,

Esposito

et al. 2024

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions aim to manage fluctuations in the infant's arousal and alertness; but over time, coregulatory processes become progressively elaborated to encompass other functions such as sociocommunicative development, attention and executive control. The fundamental aim of coregulation is to help maintain an optimal ‘critical state’ between hypo‐ and hyperactivity. Here, we present a dynamic framework for understanding child–caregiver coregulatory interactions in the context of psychopathology. Early coregulatory processes involve both passive entrainment, through which a child's state entrains to the caregiver's, and active contingent responsiveness, through which the caregiver changes their behaviour in response to behaviours from the child. Similar principles, of interactive but asymmetric contingency, drive joint attention and the maintenance of epistemic states as well as arousal/alertness, emotion regulation and sociocommunicative development. We describe three ways in which active child–caregiver regulation can develop atypically, in conditions such as Autism, ADHD, anxiety and depression. The most well‐known of these is insufficient contingent responsiveness, leading to reduced synchrony, which has been shown across a range of modalities in different disorders, and which is the target of most current interventions. We also present evidence that excessive contingent responsiveness and excessive synchrony can develop in some circumstances. And we show that positive feedback interactions can develop, which are contingent but mutually amplificatory child–caregiver interactions that drive the child further from their critical state. We discuss implications of these findings for future intervention research, and directions for future work.

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Section: Part 2—theory—coregulation and Dysregulationsupporting

confidence: 90%

Section: Why Study Interactions?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

Wass,

Greenwood,

Esposito

et al. 2024

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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“…The associated frequent night‐time awakenings are naturally responded to by the use of close soothing strategies. Recent studies highlight the effectiveness of nocturnal soothing through maternal carrying or reciprocal motion from a moving cot for awake infants, but not for non‐crying ones (Ohmura et al., 2022). Thus, the observed association of CS strategies with night‐time awakenings can be considered sensitive parenting behavior at 3 months, but could also slow down the development of self‐regulatory skills.…”

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confidence: 99%

From co‐regulation to self‐regulation: Maternal soothing strategies and self‐efficacy in relation to maternal reports of infant regulation at 3 and 7 months

Kiel,

Samdan,

Wienke

et al. 2024

Infant Mental Health Journal

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This study, conducted in Germany, examines the role of maternal soothing strategies to explain the association of maternal self‐efficacy with infant regulation (crying and sleeping behavior). Questionnaire data of 150 mothers, living in Germany, with mixed ethnic and educational backgrounds were collected when infants were 3 and 7 months old. Two types of maternal soothing strategies were distinguished: close soothing, involving close physical and emotional contact, and distant soothing, involving physical and emotional distancing from the infant. A cross‐sectional SEM at 3 months indicated that maternal self‐efficacy is associated with reported infant regulation through distant soothing strategies. Low maternal self‐efficacy was associated with frequent maternal use of distant soothing, which in turn was related to reported infant regulation problems, that is, non‐soothability and greater crying frequency. Frequent use of close soothing was associated with reported infant sleeping behavior, that is, frequent night‐time awakenings. A longitudinal SEM further indicated that the effects of close soothing persisted at least until the infants' age of 7 months. The study showed how low maternal self‐efficacy, increased use of distant soothing, and reported early infant regulation problems are intertwined and that, due to their persisting positive effect on infant soothability, close soothing better supports infant development.

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“…Strong vestibular stimulation promotes wakefulness, whereas specific low-frequency vestibular stimulation induces sleep. 11 , 103 Low-frequency stimulation depotentiates synaptic efficacy in MVN neurons, 104 implying that slow rocking-induced sleep might be mediated by the reduction of LMVN GABAergic neuron activity. Prolonged vestibular stimulation leads to a pathological condition called sopite syndrome (e.g., drowsiness, apathy, and sleep disturbances).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A novel GABAergic population in the medial vestibular nucleus maintains wakefulness and gates rapid eye movement sleep

Nakatsuka,

Kanda,

Sato

et al. 2024

iScience

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A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response

Cited by 9 publications

References 35 publications

Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

Annual Research Review: ‘There, the dance is – at the still point of the turning world’ – dynamic systems perspectives on coregulation and dysregulation during early development

From co‐regulation to self‐regulation: Maternal soothing strategies and self‐efficacy in relation to maternal reports of infant regulation at 3 and 7 months

A novel GABAergic population in the medial vestibular nucleus maintains wakefulness and gates rapid eye movement sleep

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