Infant Sleep Disturbance Is Associated with Preconceptional Psychological Distress: Findings from the Southampton Women's Survey

Baird, Janis; Hill, Catherine M.; Kendrick, Tony; Inskip, Hazel

doi:10.1093/sleep/32.4.566

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“…In addition, further research should include observations of maternal sensitivity at bedtime and during the night as they relate to infant sleep and maternal well-being. Recent findings that maternal mental health preconception predicts night waking in the first year postpartum (Baird et al, 2009) suggests that future research should include prenatal measures of maternal mental health in relation to sleep behavior and maternal well-being during early childhood.…”

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Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep

Goldberg

Lucas‐Thompson

Germo

et al. 2013

Social Science & Medicine

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Transactional models of parenting and infant sleep call attention to bidirectional associations among parenting, the biosocial environment, and infant sleep behaviors. Although night waking and bedtime fussing are normative during infancy and early childhood, they can be challenging for parents. The current study, conducted in the United States between 2003 and 2009, examined concurrent and longitudinal associations between maternal mental health and infant sleep during the first year. Concurrent associations at 6 and 12 months and longitudinal associations from 6 to 12 months were studied in a non-clinic referred sample of 171 economically and culturally diverse families. Mothers with poorer mental health reported that their infants had more night waking and bedtime distress and were more bothered by these sleep issues. Associations between infant sleep and maternal mental health were moderated by culture (Hispanic/Asian vs. other) and by stressors that included high parenting stress, more stressful life events, and low family income. Individual differences in maternal well-being may color mothers’ interpretations of infants’ sleep behaviors. It may be prudent to intervene to support maternal mental health when infants are referred for sleep problems.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep

Goldberg

Lucas‐Thompson

Germo

et al. 2013

Social Science & Medicine

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“…First, in a cohort of women from the Southampton Women’s Survey (SWS), who were recruited between 20–34 years of age and followed through their subsequent pregnancies, associations between maternal preconception psychological stress (e.g., symptoms of depression and anxiety) and infant sleep were tested. Based on a sample of 874 mother-infant pairs, preconception psychological distress was prospectively associated with compromised sleep in offspring, including middle of the night awakening, at 6 and 12 months even when controlling for postnatal symptoms of distress (Baird et al, 2009). In a nationwide population-based cohort study, including all 1,015,912 singletons born in Denmark from 1987 to 2001, associations between bereavement stress and ADHD were tested: 29,094 children were born to women who lost a close relative during pregnancy or up to 1 year before pregnancy.…”

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Extending the developmental origins of disease model: Impact of preconception stress exposure on offspring neurodevelopment

Keenan

Hipwell

Class

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Developmental Psychobiology

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The concept of the developmental origins of health and disease via prenatal programming has informed many etiologic models of health and development. Extensive experimental research in non-human animal models has revealed the impact of in utero exposure to stress on fetal development and neurodevelopment later in life. Stress exposure, however, is unlikely to occur de novo following conception, and pregnancy health is not independent of the health of the system prior to conception. For these reasons, the preconception period is emerging as an important new focus for research on adverse birth outcomes and offspring neurodevelopment. In this review, we summarize the existing evidence for the role of preconception stress exposure on pregnancy health and offspring neurodevelopment across species and discuss the implications of this model for addressing health disparities in obstetrics and offspring outcomes.

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“…In pediatrics, sleep problems constitute one of the most common complaints that parents share with their providers (Mindell & Owens, 2010) with frequent night awakenings and bedtime struggles occurring in approximately 20% to 30% of infants and toddlers (Mindell, Kuhn, Lewin, Meltzer, & Sadeh, 2006). Factors predicting the onset and maintenance of sleep problems include family stress (Mannering et al, 2011), maternal anxiety (Scher, 2008), maternal prenatal depression (Baird, Hill, Kendrick, & Inskip, 2009), poor limit setting (Sadeh, Flint-Ofir, Tirosh, & Tikotzky, 2007), and beliefs about the meaning of night-time crying (Tikotzky & Sadeh, 2009). A disruption in the parent-child relationship, which may be related to each of these factors, is also a likely contributor to sleep problems (Sadeh & Anders, 1993).…”

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Randomized trial of Promoting First Relationships: Effects on maltreated toddlers' separation distress and sleep regulation after reunification

Oxford

Fleming

Nelson

et al. 2013

Children and Youth Services Review

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This study investigates the impact of an attachment focused intervention, Promoting First Relationships (PFR), on sleep problems among toddlers in child welfare recently reunified with their birth parent. Recently reunified parent-toddler dyads (n = 43) were drawn from a larger random control trial. Toddlers (11–36 months) and their parents were assessed in two-hour research home visits at enrollment (baseline), and a 6-month post-intervention follow-up. Measures included parental report of sleep problems and research visitor observation of separation distress (using the Toddler Attachment Sort-45). The PFR intervention predicted fewer sleep problems, adjusting for a baseline measure of sleep problems and other covariates. A path model showed evidence of an indirect effect of PFR on sleep problems through declines in separation distress. An attachment focused intervention like PFR that reduces infant separation distress can lead to reductions in sleep problems.

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Infant Sleep Disturbance Is Associated with Preconceptional Psychological Distress: Findings from the Southampton Women's Survey

Abstract: Women with preconceptional psychological distress are more likely to have babies with sleep disturbance during infancy, independent of whether they suffered from postnatal depression.

Cited by 30 publications

References 10 publications

Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep

Eye of the beholder? Maternal mental health and the quality of infant sleep

Extending the developmental origins of disease model: Impact of preconception stress exposure on offspring neurodevelopment

Randomized trial of Promoting First Relationships: Effects on maltreated toddlers' separation distress and sleep regulation after reunification

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