Consistency in infant sleeping arrangements and mother–infant interaction

Taylor, Nicole; Donovan, Wilberta L.; Leavitt, Lewis A.

doi:10.1002/imhj.20170

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“…The APC subscale may have been inadequate to capture all dimensions of mothers' intense involvement in their infants' settling or the association between maternal use of APC and her style of attachment may have been attenuated by another variable, such as consistency in using comforting strategies. In a study linking infants' sleeping arrangements and mother-infant interaction, consistency in sleep arrangements was associated with more positive mother-infant interaction (Taylor et al, 2008). We found that infants with pre-existing siblings had more awakenings in a night than first-born infants; however, there was no significant association between birth order and the mothers' report of the presence of infant sleep problems.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 54%

Quality of Preterm Infants’ Night Sleep: and Online Community-Based Survey of Maternal Factors and Perceptions of Infants’ Nighttime Awakenings and Sleep Problems

Ali

Wendy²,

Fay³

et al. 2014

IJANS

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Background: Between one-quarter and one-third of infants aged six months to five years have sleeping problems. Infants' night sleep patterns, in particular problematic night waking with crying, are a common concern for parents. Many factors can influence the development of infants’ night sleep patterns and sleep problems, including parental interaction. Objectives: To examine the associations between premature infants’ nighttime awakening, mothers’ reports of sleep problem severity, and maternal factors, including mothers’ styles of attachment and behaviors used to settle their infants to sleep. Method: The cross sectional survey study used a web-based questionnaire to collect data from a community-based sample of 105 mothers of singleton premature infants aged 5-6 months (corrected age) across a number of English speaking countries. The main outcome measures were mothers’ perceptions of infants’ nighttime awakenings (frequency and duration) and presence of infant sleep problems. Results: Of the 55% of mothers who reported that their infants had sleep problems, 17% described the problem as serious. The majority of infants woke 2.1 times per night for an average of 45.7 minutes per night. Mothers’ style of attachment and personal history of sleep problems predicted the duration of the infants’ nighttime awakening, whereas maternal active physical comforting predicted the frequency of nighttime awakenings. Conclusions: The findings can guide healthcare providers to screen mothers for an anxious style of attachment, perceptions of infant sleep problems, and use of active physical comforting strategies for bedtime settling when assessing premature infants’ sleep problems. Keywords: Maternal Attachment, Nighttime Awakenings, Premature Infant, Settling Strategies, Sleep Problem

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confidence: 54%

Quality of Preterm Infants’ Night Sleep: and Online Community-Based Survey of Maternal Factors and Perceptions of Infants’ Nighttime Awakenings and Sleep Problems

Ali

Wendy²,

Fay³

et al. 2014

IJANS

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“…Although the day-night circadian patterning of sleep is often consolidated at about 6 months of age (i.e., infants are sleeping more consistently throughout the night) (Galland, Taylor, Elder, & Herbison, 2012;Henderson, France, Owens, & Blampied, 2010), contextual factors that may disrupt sleep in households with more challenges, such as inconsistent routines, sleeping arrangements, or maternal responses to infant cues, may place families at greater risk of sleep problems (Taylor, Donovan, & Leavitt, 2008). Much of the extant literature has used average sleep parameters to characterize sleep disturbance in vulnerable populations (Becker, Sidol, Van Dyk, Epstein, & Beebe, 2017).…”

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Child maltreatment severity and sleep variability predict mother–infant RSA coregulation

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Regulatory processes underlie mother-infant interactions and may be disrupted in adverse caregiving environments. Child maltreatment and sleep variability may reflect high-risk caregiving, but it is unknown whether they confer vulnerability for poorer mother–infant parasympathetic coordination. The aim of this study was to examine mother–infant coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) in relation to child maltreatment severity and night-to-night sleep variability in 47 low-income mother–infant dyads. Maternal and infant sleep was assessed with actigraphy and daily diaries for 7 nights followed by a mother–infant still-face procedure during which RSA was measured. Higher maltreatment severity was associated with weakened concordance in RSA coregulation related to the coupling of higher mother RSA with lower infant RSA, suggesting greater infant distress and lower maternal support. In addition, higher infant sleep variability was associated with infants’ lower mean RSA and concordance in lagged RSA coregulation such that lower maternal RSA predicted lower infant RSA across the still-face procedure, suggesting interrelated distress. The findings indicate that adverse caregiving environments differentially impact regulatory patterns in mother–infant dyads, which may inform modifiable health-risk behaviors as targets for future intervention.

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“…Cosleeping was found to be positively associated with breastfeeding duration (McKenna, Ball, & Gettler, ; Taylor, Donovan, & Leavitt, ). Mothers who cosleep with their infants were shown to breastfeed their infants twice as often as those who did not cosleep (McKenna et al., ).…”

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Breastfeeding: A holistic Concept Analysis

Bomer-Norton

2013

Public Health Nursing

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Breastfeeding is a critical public health intervention. Nurses play a vital role in promoting and supporting optimal breastfeeding practices in infants and young children. An analysis following the eight-part Walker & Avant method provides clarity and context to the concept of breastfeeding. The antecedents of the concept of breastfeeding indicate nurse interventions to facilitate and the consequences provide key points for education related to the benefits of breastfeeding.

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Consistency in infant sleeping arrangements and mother–infant interaction

Cited by 18 publications

References 66 publications

Quality of Preterm Infants’ Night Sleep: and Online Community-Based Survey of Maternal Factors and Perceptions of Infants’ Nighttime Awakenings and Sleep Problems

Quality of Preterm Infants’ Night Sleep: and Online Community-Based Survey of Maternal Factors and Perceptions of Infants’ Nighttime Awakenings and Sleep Problems

Child maltreatment severity and sleep variability predict mother–infant RSA coregulation

Breastfeeding: A holistic Concept Analysis

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