Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Dysfunctional Cognitions, and Infant Night Waking: The Role of Maternal Nighttime Behavior

Teti, Douglas M.; Crosby, Brian

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01760.x

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“…These findings support and extend earlier work (Teti, Crosby, McDaniel, Shimizu, & Whitesell, 2015), who reported that maritally distressed mothers who co-slept with their infants at 1 month were more likely to maintain these co-sleeping arrangements through 6 months, compared to non-distressed co-sleeping mothers at 1 month, who by contrast were more likely to move their infants into solitary sleep by 6 months. The present findings also extend the findings of Teti and Crosby (2012), who found that mothers with elevated depressive symptoms and excessive worries about their infants’ nighttime sleep behavior were more likely to seek out and spend time with their infants during the night than mothers with low symptom levels, and that this propensity for doing so was largely unrelated to whether or not their infants were distressed.…”

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

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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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.

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confidence: 87%

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

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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“…Additional methods for assessment, such as in-home visits and unobtrusive observation of the infant sleep environment have been suggested [21]. Some researchers have also utilized video-recordings throughout the night in the home to document infant sleep practices [46][47][48][49][50][51]. In addition, for most of the studies, the data collection tool was newly created for the purposes of that study.…”

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Infant Safe Sleep Interventions, 1990–2015: A Review

Ward

Balfour

2015

J Community Health

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Sleep-related infant deaths remain a major public health issue. Multiple interventions have been implemented in efforts to increase adherence to safe sleep recommendations. We conducted a systematic review of the international research literature to synthesize research on interventions to reduce the risk of sleep-related deaths and their effectiveness in changing infant sleep practices. We searched PubMed, CINAHL, PsycINFO, and Google Scholar for peer-reviewed articles published between 1990 and 2015 which described an intervention and reported results. Twenty-nine articles were included for review. Studies focused on infant caregivers, health care professionals, peers, and child care professionals. Targeted behaviors included sleep position, location, removing items from the crib, breastfeeding, smoke exposure, clothing, pacifier use, and knowledge of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Most articles described multi-faceted interventions, including: one-on-one or group education, printed materials, visual displays, videos, and providing resources such as cribs, pacifiers, wearable blankets, and infant t-shirts. Two described public education campaigns, one used an educative questionnaire, and one encouraged maternal note taking. Health professional interventions included implementing safe sleep policies, in-service training, printed provider materials, eliciting agreement on a Declaration of Safe Sleep Practice, and sharing adherence data. Data collection methods included self-report via surveys and observational crib audits. Over half of the studies utilized comparison groups which helped determine effectiveness. Most articles reported some degree of success in changing some of the targeted behaviors; no studies reported complete adherence to recommendations. Future studies should incorporate rigorous evaluation plans, utilize comparison groups, and collect demographic and collect follow-up data.

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“…However, the nature of the association between attachment and sleep problems, if it can be shown to be reliable, may be complex and may involve a number of factors also known to be implicated in the connection between childhood psychopathology and sleep. For instance, Teti and Crosby tested a model in which maternal presence during the night (defined as the presence of the mother in the same room or close physical contact) acted as a mediator between maternal depression and child awakenings (Teti & Crosby, 2012). In that study, the association between maternal depressive symptoms and child awakenings was no longer statistically significant after controlling for maternal presence with the infant during the night.…”

Section: Disorganized Attachment Sleep and Developmentmentioning

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Establishment and consolidation of the sleep-wake cycle as a function of attachment pattern

Pennestri

Moss²,

OʼDonnell

et al. 2014

Attachment & Human Development

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The development of sleep-wake regulation in infants depends upon brain maturation as well as various environmental factors. The aim of the present study was to evaluate sleep duration and quality as a function of child attachment to the mother. One hundred and thirty-four mother-child dyads enrolled in the Maternal Adversity, Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) project were included in this study. Attachment was assessed with the Strange Situation procedure at 36 months and maternal sleep reports were collected at 6, 12, 24 and 36 months. Differences in sleep characteristics were assessed with mixed models with one factor (attachment group) and one repeated measure (age). Children classified as disorganized had a significantly lower duration of nocturnal sleep, went to bed later, signaled more awakenings, had shorter periods of uninterrupted sleep (only at 12 months) and had shorter periods of time in bed (only at 6 months) than children classified as secure and/or ambivalent (p < 0.05). This is the first study to show that children with insecure disorganized attachment present a distinct sleep pattern in comparison with those with secure or ambivalent attachment between 6 and 36 months of age. Sleep disturbances could exacerbate difficulties in these families that are already considered vulnerable.

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Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Dysfunctional Cognitions, and Infant Night Waking: The Role of Maternal Nighttime Behavior

Cited by 109 publications

References 41 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.

Infant Safe Sleep Interventions, 1990–2015: A Review

Establishment and consolidation of the sleep-wake cycle as a function of attachment pattern

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