As far as titles in academic journals go, it’s quite the attention-getter.
Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally
Babies and children have needs at night just as they do during the day; from hunger, loneliness, and fear, to feeling too hot or too cold. They rely on parents to soothe them and help them regulate their intense emotions. Sleep training techniques can have detrimental physiological and psychological effects. Safe co-sleeping has benefits to both babies and parents.
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Children must go through almost a million phases, particularly in the early years. Sometimes I could barely get used to my baby's latest pattern before he had moved on to a different one! |
Have you ever thought about where ‘the cot’ came from? Who invented it? When was it introduced into society? Before having my son, I always understood a cot to be a staple necessity in the life of a baby. |
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Bedtime...ugh! Every night, it was the same thing: My sons were 4 and 2 and seemed to be doing everything they could to keep from going to sleep. |
Part one of a two-part series on CIO "A little throw-up never hurt anyone.” |
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Over the next weeks, we both tried, and failed, to stay awake while holding Jack. We were dozing off, still upright, on the couch or in a recliner or glider — waking in a panic every time we realized what had happened. |
My husband and I spent a small fortune on rocking Moses baskets, hypnotic mobiles and luxury cots. |
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When done safely, bed sharing makes mothers (and fathers!) and babies happy and has positive developmental effects on growing children. Surely mothers should not be stigmatized or considered irresponsible for bed sharing. |
In her recent New York Times blog post “Sleep Training at 8 weeks: ‘Do You Have the Guts?” Aimee Molloy describes a routine pediatric visit that took an ugly turn. |
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Exclusively breastfed infants had less colic and fussiness, and slept longer. Melatonin, which promotes sleep, available only in breastmilk, showed a clear relationship to infant sleep patterns. |
More research is needed to identify what is normal when it comes to child sleep. Some of what is known is that children need longer nighttime sleep until about 9 years old. By school age, most children sleep through the night, but children up to 3 1/2 years old continue to wake at least once. Low birth-weight and pre-term infants sleep more. Infants of younger mother sleep more. All infants sleep longer at night, wake multiple times at night, and sleep longer daytime naps than young children who mostly stop taking naps by 5 years old. Girls sleep longer than boys. Children with siblings sleep less. |
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