Altered sleep architecture during the first months of life in infants born to depressed mothers

Bat-Pitault, F.; Sesso, Gianluca; Deruelle, Christine; Flori, S.; Porcher-Guinet, V.; Stagnara, Camille; Guyon, Aurore; Plancoulaine, Sabine; Adrien, Joëlle; Fonséca, D. Da; Patural, Hugues; Franco, Patricia

doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2016.11.018

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“…Low parental education and incomes, unfavorable neighborhood [15], high maternal age, maternal depression [16,17], prematurity [5,18,19], low birth weight [5,19], breastfeeding [2,9], and care outside the home [7,20] have been found associated with infant and childhood sleep disturbances. Moreover, longitudinal studies within the first year of life suggest that parental sleep-related behaviors (e.g., needing the parent's presence to fall asleep, feeding before sleep and infant's sleep arrangement and location) play a critical role in the consolidation of the infant's sleep [2,9,21,22].…”

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Sleep habits and sleep characteristics at age one year in the ELFE birth cohort study

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Objective Infant sleep plays a critical role in normal development. Sleep problems, including sleep onset difficulties (SODs) and night waking (NW), range from 20% to 30% in infants and young children and can be persistent over time up to adulthood. Young French children seem to have longer sleep durations and less sleep troubles than their counterparts worldwide. Here, we aimed at describing infant sleep characteristics (total sleep time (TST)/24 h, NW, and SODs) and associated sleep habits in infants at age 1 year from the French nationwide birth cohort ELFE. Methods This study included 11,783 infants with information on both sleep characteristics and sleep habits (parental presence when falling asleep, eating to fall asleep, sucking a pacifier or finger to sleep and sleep arrangement and location). Associations were studied by multinomial logistic regression analyses adjusted for familial and infant characteristics. Results Mean TST was 13h36min including 2h54min of naps; 20% of the infants had TST ≤12h/24h. About 46% did not present SOD or NW, 16% had frequent SODs and 22% had NW >1 night in 2. Parental presence, feeding to fall asleep and infant sleep arrangements were frequent in infants with short sleep duration (≤12h/24h), NW and SODs. Non-nutritive sucking was associated with risk of NW, SOD and TST >14h/24h. Parental room sharing was associated with NW. Conclusion This work provides new information on infant sleep arrangements and nonnutritive sucking that should be accounted for when considering sleep behaviors. In addition, most identified sleep habits associated with poor sleep characteristics may be amenable to change.

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“…For sleep‐onset difficulties and night‐waking trajectories, we used multiple logistic regressions and, for nighttime in bed trajectories, we used multiple multinomial logistic regressions. Potential confounding factors included in the models were identified from literature (Bat‐Pitault et al., ; Blair et al., ; Johansson, Ludvigsson, & Hermansson, ; Karraker & Young, ; Machado et al., ; Nevarez et al., ; Reynaud et al., ; Sadeh, Tikotzky, & Scher, ) and selected using the Directed Acyclic Graphs method (http://www.dagitty.net; Textor, Hardt, & Knüppel, ). All the models were then adjusted for family income, marital status, maternal educational level, maternal age at delivery, maternal depressive symptoms during pregnancy, maternal smoking during pregnancy, preterm birth, child's gender, child's regurgitation problems from birth to 8 months old, and maternal return to work within the first year.…”

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“…For sleep-onset difficulties and night-waking trajectories, we used multiple logistic regressions and, for nighttime in bed trajectories, we used multiple multinomial logistic regressions. Potential confounding factors included in the models were identified from literature (Bat-Pitault et al, 2017;Blair et al, 2012;Johansson, Ludvigsson, & Hermansson, 2008;Karraker & Young, 2007;Machado et al, 2013;Nevarez et al, 2010;Reynaud et al, 2016;Sadeh, Tikotzky, & Scher, 2010) and selected using the Directed Acyclic Graphs method (www.…”

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Infant feeding practices and sleep development in pre‐schoolers from the EDEN mother–child cohort

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Journal of Sleep Research

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Sleep problems affect 20%–30% of toddlers and preschoolers. Few longitudinal studies focused on the impact of infant feeding practices on sleep. We aimed to study the associations between feeding practices up to 8 months and trajectories of sleep quantity or quality from 2 to 5–6 years. Analyses included 1,028 children from the EDEN mother–child cohort. Data were collected by self‐administered questionnaires. Associations between feeding practices (breastfeeding, complementary feeding, use of thickened infant formula, night feeding) and sleep trajectories (sleep‐onset difficulties, night waking, nighttime in bed) were analysed by multiple logistic regressions. Predominant breastfeeding for more than 4 months was associated with lower risk for belonging to the persistent sleep‐onset difficulties trajectory. Night feeding at 4 months or at 2 years old was associated with higher risk for belonging to the persistent sleep‐onset difficulties trajectory, and night feeding at 8 months was associated with higher risk for night waking and higher risk for short nighttime in bed. Early introduction (< 4 months) to complementary foods (excluding baby cereals) was related to lower risk for short nighttime in bed. Use of baby cereals or thickened infant formula was related neither to sleep quality nor to sleep quantity. In conclusion, infant feeding practices are associated with sleep trajectories in preschoolers, with notably a potential protective role of breastfeeding. Further researches are needed to clarify the mechanisms of these relationships.

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“…In other words, when maternal sleep quality declines due to depression, infants wake more during the night (Hairston et al., 2016), partially due to maternal behaviors during nighttime caretaking. In addition, infant sleep architecture in the first six months of life is significantly altered in the context of maternal depression at the time of birth, suggesting that prenatal environmental exposure to maternal depression could affect the infant’s neurodevelopmental plasticity (Bat-Pitault et al., 2017). Is it possible that more night waking by infants of depressed mothers reflect an infant’s bid to build attachment?…”

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What Is “Normal” Infant Sleep? Why We Still Do Not Know

Barry

2020

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The human need for sleep is universal and unquestioned; however, humans vary in their sleep needs according to age, individual differences, as well as cultural and social norms and practices. Therefore, what is “normal” in infant sleep and the development of sleep architecture in humans is highly dependent on biological and sociocultural variables as well as socially constructed assumptions about what infant sleep “should” look like. This paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to review papers from fields including pediatrics, anthropology, psychology, medicine, and sociology to understand “normal” infant sleep. Because human culture and behavioral practice changes much more quickly than evolved human biology, and because human evolutionary history occurred in the context of breastfeeding and cosleeping, new work in the field of infant sleep architecture development would benefit from a multidisciplinary approach. To come to a consensus about what is “normal” infant sleep, researchers must agree on underlying basic assumptions of infant sleep from which to ask question and interpret findings.

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Altered sleep architecture during the first months of life in infants born to depressed mothers

Cited by 22 publications

References 46 publications

Sleep habits and sleep characteristics at age one year in the ELFE birth cohort study

Sleep habits and sleep characteristics at age one year in the ELFE birth cohort study

Infant feeding practices and sleep development in pre‐schoolers from the EDEN mother–child cohort

What Is “Normal” Infant Sleep? Why We Still Do Not Know

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