Discrepancies in maternal reports of infant sleep vs. actigraphy by mode of feeding

Rudzik, Alanna E.F.; Robinson-Smith, Lyn; Ball, Helen L.

doi:10.1016/j.sleep.2018.06.010

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“…Although cosleeping mothers often report that their infants wake more at night compared with solitary sleeping infants (e.g., Teti et al., 2016), other work using sleep actigraphy rather than maternal reports has shown that cosleeping infants wake the same amount, on average, as solitary-sleeping infants but cosleeping mothers are more aware of their infants’ waking (e.g., Sadeh, 1996; Volkovich et al., 2015). This finding mirrors Rudzik et al.’s (2018) work with maternal reports of breastfed infants’ waking versus actigraphy. Similarly, cosleeping mothers are also more likely to do any breastfeeding and breastfeed for longer duration (c.f., Bovbjerg et al., 2018; Smith et al., 2016) and are more likely to breastfeed during the night (Buswell & Spatz, 2007; Little et al., 2018; McKenna et al., 1997; Russell et al., 2013).…”

Section: The Medical View Of Infant Sleepsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…However, formula-feeding mothers may overestimate their infants’ sleep when using maternal reports. When measured with a sleep actigraph, their infants’ sleep was not different from infants who were breastfed or who coslept (Rudzik et al., 2018).…”

Section: The Medical View Of Infant Sleepmentioning

confidence: 93%

“…Many studies use parental reports of “sleep problem” as a definition of an infant’s sleep problem (e.g., Hairston et al., 2016; Hiscock & Fisher, 2015; Scher & Asher, 2004). However, this highly subjective definition runs the risk of inappropriately medicalizing infants who may not have any clinical pathology (Rudzik et al., 2018). For example, sleep recordings of one-year-old infants who had not been referred for sleep problems showed their sleep to be well regulated and highly efficient (Scher & Asher, 2004).…”

Section: Sleep Problemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

Barry

2020

Psychol Rep

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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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Section: The Medical View Of Infant Sleepsupporting

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Section: The Medical View Of Infant Sleepmentioning

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Section: Sleep Problemsmentioning

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

Barry

2020

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“…However, longitudinal studies showed that the feeding method (breastfeeding versus formula feeding) at 6 months was associated neither with night waking nor with reported sleep duration between 18 and 24 months (Hysing et al, 2014; Nevarez, Rifas‐Shiman, Kleinman, Gillman, & Taveras, 2010). By comparing actigraphy data and maternal reports, a recent study showed that mothers who formula‐fed between age 1 and 4.5 months tended to overestimate their infants' night sleep duration as compared with mothers who breastfed (Rudzik, Robinson‐Smith, & Ball, 2018). More recently, predominant breastfeeding for more than 4 months was found associated with low risk of persistent reported sleep‐onset difficulties between age 2 and 5 years (Murcia et al, 2019).…”

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Infant feeding practices and sleep at 1 year of age in the nationwide ELFE cohort

Messayke

Davisse‐Paturet

Nicklaus

et al. 2020

Maternal & Child Nutrition

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Sleep problems reported by parents affect 20% to 30% of infants. Few studies focused on the longitudinal association between infant feeding practices and sleep, especially in France. Analyses were based on 8,696 infants from the French national birth cohort ELFE. Collection of feeding practices from birth to 10 months allowed for the identification of trajectories of use of baby cereals and thickened formula by group‐based trajectory modelling and calculation of duration of any breastfeeding (BF) and age at complementary feeding introduction (CFI) excluding baby cereals. Total sleep duration (TSD), night waking (NW) and sleep onset difficulties (SOD) were reported at age 1. Associations between feeding and sleep were tested by multinomial logistic regressions. BF duration ≥6 months was associated with parent‐reported frequent NW, SOD and TSD ≤ 12 h/24 h at age 1. For TSD and SOD, this association was no longer significant after accounting for parental sleep‐related practices. Early use of baby cereals (≤5 months) was associated with poor sleep. Early CFI (<4 months) was associated with shorter TSD and SOD but not NW. Early use of thickened formula (only <6 months) was related to poor sleep at age 1 (NW and SOD), whereas late (around 6 months) use of thickened formula was associated with better sleep. BF duration ≥6 months was related to poor sleep at age 1 but not after adjustment on 1‐year parental sleep‐related practices except for NW. The use of baby cereals or early CFI was not related to better sleep at age 1.

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“…, ) and breastfeeding behavior (Ball et al. ; McKenna and Gettler ), infant sleep development (Rudzik and Ball , ), infant nighttime care following caesarean section (Tully and Ball ), the effects of co‐sleeping on paternal hormonal physiology (Gettler et al. ), parental coping strategies (Ball ; Rudzik and Ball ; Volpe and Ball ), and the role of parent–infant conflict theory in understanding infant sleep and nighttime care (Haig ; Hinde ; Tully and Ball ; Volpe, Ball, and McKenna ).…”

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confidence: 99%

Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant Sleep

Ball

Tomori

McKenna

2019

American Anthropologist

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This article provides a novel synthesis of anthropological research on infant sleep, focusing on work in biological and sociocultural anthropology in the past decade. First, we briefly review early biological anthropological research into infant sleep from 1987 to 2007, which provided the evidence base for the argument that proximate parent-infant sleep combined with lactation represents a complex set of adaptations that constitute the human evolutionary norm. This work challenged the Western pediatric infant sleep research paradigm, which positioned formula-or bottle-fed solitary sleeping infants as the basis for research and universal models about human infant sleep. Next, we address how recent research has built on these foundations and extended anthropological insights into new aspects of infant sleep. Biological anthropologists, who continue to lead this research, have advanced into the hormonal and behavioral ecology of parent-infant sleep and trade-offs in nighttime care and parent-infant conflict. Moreover, they have made significant progress in translating anthropological research into policy and practice in clinical and health delivery settings. Until recently, sociocultural anthropology has primarily addressed infant sleep as part of broader endeavors, without an explicit focus on infant sleep. We highlight key ethnographic works that shed light on the cultural normalcy and interembodied experience of shared maternal-infant sleep with breastfeeding that help de-center Western discourses of infant sleep. We conclude by discussing future research agendas to forward an integrated anthropology of human infant sleep that considers its full biological and sociocultural context. Integrated anthropological approaches to infant sleep not only present a path forward for novel cross-subfield anthropological research but could help guide more effective and equitable approaches to maternal-infant health. [nighttime care, parenting, infancy, sleep]RESUMEN Este artículo provee una síntesis novedosa de la investigación antropológica sobre el sueño de infantes, enfocándose en el trabajo en antropología biológica y sociocultural en la década pasada. Primero, brevemente revisamos la investigación antropológica biológica temprana en el sueño de infantes desde 1987 a 2007, la cual proveyó la evidencia base para el argumento que el sueño padres-infante cercano combinado con la lactación representa un complejo conjunto de adaptaciones que constituye la norma evolucionaria humana. Este trabajo reta el paradigma occidental de la investigación pediátrica en el sueño de infantes, el cual posiciona los bebés durmiendo solitarios alimentados con fórmula o biberón como la base de la investigación y modelos universales acerca del sueño de infantes humanos. Luego, abordamos cómo la investigación reciente ha construido sobre estas bases y extendido los conocimientos antropológicos en nuevos aspectos del sueño de infantes. Antropólogos biológicos, quienes continúan liderando esta investigación, han avanzado en la ecología hormonal y co...

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Discrepancies in maternal reports of infant sleep vs. actigraphy by mode of feeding

Cited by 29 publications

References 51 publications

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

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

Infant feeding practices and sleep at 1 year of age in the nationwide ELFE cohort

Toward an Integrated Anthropology of Infant Sleep

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