Co‐sleeping during infancy and early childhood: key findings and future directions

Goldberg, Wendy A.; Keller, Meret A.

doi:10.1002/icd.522

Cited by 37 publications

(30 citation statements)

References 37 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…One item in the Sleep Practices Questionnaire (SPQ) (Goldberg & Keller, 2007) was used at each age point to obtain information from parents about their infants’ sleep arrangements. Mothers responded to the SPQ item: “Where does your baby usually sleep at night?” At each age point, four sleep arrangement categories were scored: Solitary sleep (infant slept in a separate room), room sharing (infant slept in the same room as parents, but on a separate sleeping surface), bed sharing (infant slept in the same bed as the parents), and combination (infant’s sleep arrangement varied across the night between solitary sleep, room sharing and/or bed sharing).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present longitudinal study addressed the ongoing debate regarding the benefits and risks of infant-parent co-sleeping by examining associations between sleep arrangement patterns across the first year of life and infant and parent sleep, marital and family functioning, and quality of mothers’ behavior with infants at bedtime. Patterns of infant sleep arrangements across the infants’ first year were derived from information obtained from 139 families at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of infant age in a U.S., central Pennsylvanian sample. Linkages between these patterns and parent-infant sleep, marital and coparenting stress, and maternal behavior at bedtime (from video-recordings) were assessed. Compared to families whose infants were solitary sleepers by 6 months, persistent co-sleeping was associated with sleep disruption in mothers but not in infants, although mothers in persistent co-sleeping arrangements reported that their infants had more frequent night awakenings. Persistent co-sleeping was also associated with mother reports of marital and coparenting distress, and lower maternal emotional availability with infants at bedtime (from home observations). Persistent co-sleeping appeared to be a marker of, though not necessarily a cause of, heightened family stress, although the present design did not enable strong tests of causal processes, and results may be particular to cultures that are not supportive of co-sleeping. Findings are discussed in terms of cultural contexts of infant sleep and the need for further investigations into the role of the health of the family system in influencing how parents structure infant sleep.

show abstract

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The Sleep Practices Questionnaire (SPQ) (Goldberg & Keller, 2007) was used at each age point to obtain information from parents about their infants' sleep arrangements. Mothers responded to the SPQ item: “Where does your baby usually sleep at night?” At each age point, four sleep arrangement categories were scored: Solitary sleep (infant slept in a separate room), room sharing (infant slept in the same room as parents, but on a separate sleeping surface), bed sharing (infant slept in the same bed as parents), and combination (infant's sleep arrangement varied across the night).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Trajectories of mothers’ emotional availability: relations with infant temperament in predicting attachment security

Kim

Chow

Bray

et al. 2016

Attachment & Human Development

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The present study examined observations of parenting quality (mothers' emotional availability - EA) during infant bedtimes at 4 points across the infants' first year, assessing relations between levels and trajectories of emotional availability and infant attachment at 12 months and the role of infant temperament in moderating these associations. The sample (N = 128) was predominantly Euro-American (82.5%) and at low socioeconomic risk. Latent growth curve modeling with latent basis coefficients indicated substantial individual differences in initial levels and slopes in EA trajectories across the first year. Both levels of maternal EA and EA trajectories across the first year predicted 12-month infant attachment security. Although maternal EA tended to decrease across the first year in the full sample, EA trajectories that showed a “bounce-back” between 6 and 12 months, suggesting more successful maternal adaptation to an expanding infant developmental repertoire, predicted greater infant security at 12 months. In addition, linkages between latent EA trajectories and 12-month attachment were moderated by 3-month infant temperamental reactivity and regulation. These findings indicate that infant attachment security is sensitive to both static and dynamic aspects of parenting quality across the first year, and that infant temperament can interact with both in predicting infant attachment.

show abstract

“…Although there are claims that co-sleeping increases the risk for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), Hauck et al (2003) discovered that this risk was not statistically significant; however, co-sleeping between an infant and other children was a significant risk factor for SIDS. In fact, notable pediatric sleep expert Richard Ferber has recently changed his long-standing position and now views bed sharing to be suitable for some families when adhering to safety precautions (Goldberg & Keller, 2007a, 2007b. In fact, notable pediatric sleep expert Richard Ferber has recently changed his long-standing position and now views bed sharing to be suitable for some families when adhering to safety precautions (Goldberg & Keller, 2007a, 2007b.…”

Section: Should Children Sleep With Their Parents?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Within the United States, there are vast differences in sleep practices based on racial, ethnic, regional, and socioeconomic background (Goldberg & Keller, 2007a). Latz, Wolf, and Lozoff (1999) conducted a qualitative study comparing co-sleeping practices in the United States and Japan among middle-class households (N = 205 families).…”

Section: Table 3 Establishing Healthy Sleep Hygiene Practicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Risks and benefits of parent/child bed sharing

Sobralske

Gruber²

2009

Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Co‐sleeping during infancy and early childhood: key findings and future directions

Cited by 37 publications

References 37 publications

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Trajectories of mothers’ emotional availability: relations with infant temperament in predicting attachment security

Risks and benefits of parent/child bed sharing

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About