Infant Sleep Duration And Maternal Sensitivities

Lack of sleep will affect a child’s development. A child needs sufficient sleep to be able to concentrate and be able to learn. Lack of sleep can also cause emotional, social and behavioural problems, this is because if a child is

Infant co-sleeping is a highly controversial topic of debate in our society. There are many valid reasons as to why infant co-sleeping is an appropriate practice based upon many different things, some to include research, culture and personal opinion. And there are just as many reasons to recede that claim and support that co-sleeping is detrimental to the health and well-being of an infant. Before the following research, as outlined in this paper, my personal opinion was based on the fact that I practiced co-sleeping with my son many years ago, back when co-sleeping was not such an issue. I felt comfortable with co-sleeping and supported co-sleeping. The reasoning behind this could have been the age factor as a teen mother, my cultural beliefs and also the comfort of knowing my child was close and I could access him easily if needed. As I learned more about co-sleeping and began my work in the field of ECE, I was encouraged to support the “Back to Sleep” movement and to share the cons of co-sleeping with the families I worked with based upon the beliefs of my employer. The following articles will highlight the many pros and cons of infant co-sleeping

“Twenty years ago we had very little direct experience. We've found that youngsters sleep very well in a variety of situations, as seen around the world. From a sleep perspective, we have little evidence for or against any of these arrangements. We like to know families have plans

New born babies can spend up to 50% of their day sleeping, doctors believe that it provides the brain with a work out that offers much stimulation to infants. This sleep time is crucial for a proper brain development. It also provides the body with much needed relaxation and recuperation. Research shows that having shorter sleep durations can be associated with lower cognitive performance, hyperactivity-impulsivity, and impaired neurological development.

Candice Alfano, who is a clinical psychologist and psychology professor created the National Institute of Mental Health. This is the study of whether children who have experienced inadequate or disrupted sleep are more likely to develop later in life depression or anxiety. I believe that she is researching this study very well. Alfano and co-investigator Cara Palmer are performing an experiment by restricting sleep on 50 children between ages 7 and 11. They are performing this experiment to figure out exactly what sleep deprivation does to the behavioral and psychological patterns of emotional risk. The results of this experiment proves that inadequate sleep has an impact on children's emotional health by creating negative emotions and turning positive ones into negative.

Lack of sleep affects children's relationships with others as sleep makes a difference to behaviours and control of emotions.

Everyone, at some point in life, has experienced the terror of waking up from a disconcerting dream and longing for the comfort that only a mother can provide. Imagine there is an infant, new to the world and confused about everything around him, and how this child must feel when awakening with this uneasy feeling. Who knows how long it could take for the child’s mother to wake and come to his aid and how long that will feel to the newborn. Now imagine that the baby is right next to his mother, and just as he begins to stir, this warm familiar hand brings solace and familiarity with just a slight touch, quieting the child before there is any disturbance. This situation is one of the many positive ways that co-sleeping can affect a family. Co-sleeping is a hypernym of sleeping arrangements defined by Wendy Goldberg as “the presence of a caregiver who sleeps within close enough proximity of the infant to permit the exchange of at least two sensory stimuli” (par. 8). Goldberg is a psychology professor at the University of California, with specializations in infant sleep and transition into parenthood, among other things. While the medical community is at odds on the topic of co-sleeping, both sides acknowledge the risks and benefits of the other; however, the belief that co-sleeping is the superior arrangement for both baby and parent definitely has more corroborative evidence than the inadequate data used in advocating for solitary sleeping.

Ramos, K. D., Youngclarke, D., & Anderson, J. E. (2007). Parental perceptions of sleep problems among

Developmental Psychology Journal Articles The five journal articles I examined were all from a journal titled Developmental Psychology, May 2000. The first journal article that I observed was "Sleep Patterns and Sleep Disruptions in School-Aged Children." This study assessed the sleep patterns, sleep disruptions, and sleepiness of school-age children. Sleep patterns of 140 children (72 boys and 68 girls; 2nd-, 4th-, and 6th-grade students) were evaluated with activity monitors (actigraphs).

The following hypothesis were assessed during the study: Cosleeping would be associated with mothers’ reports of infant increased night waking, and Cosleeping will be associated with marital and co-parenting distress. The study consisted of 149 families and their one-month-old healthy infant who were recruited to participate in a larger longitudinal National Institute of Child Health and Human Development-funded study (Study of Infants’ Emergent Sleep Trajectories) of parenting, infant sleep, and infant development across the infants’ first 2 years. The study focused on the first year home visits, which took place when the infants were 1,3,6,9, and 12 months. There were 80 female and 69 male infants, and 95% of the families were married or living with a partner. Home visits were conducted daily during the ages of 1,3,6,9, and 12 months. At each different age point, family assessments were done, mothers and fathers completed

The article focuses on sleep in five-year old’s and the effects sleep will have on them as they transition into kindergarten. The article had three topics that was in reference to the changes in sleep duration, timing, and quality of a 5-year-old. The changes in sleep can cause poor sleep health, which is seen in children. Poor sleep health can cause short term and long term developmental concerns, like poor academics, behavioral concerns, emotional concerns, and hyperactivity. Carirns and Harsh gathered their finding from 5-year old’s who attended a preschool and those that didn’t. However, the results provided evidence on the lack of a 30-40 minute naps a child will loss while transitioning into kindergarten. The information can be valuable on why kindergartens need a twenty- thirty-minute break throughout the day.

The research in this paper indicates that if a child’s sleep needs are met, then the child will likely increase positive behaviors, improve academic skills, and possess better physical health (Buckhait et al., 2015; Cairns & Harsh, 2015; Desrochers et al., 2016; Keefe-Cooperman & Brady-Amoon, 2012; Kurdziela et al., 2013; Mednick,

For mothers everywhere, having a newborn baby requires them to seek the most healthiest route of taking care of them (newborn). The first thing, or things, that are thought of is when and how to feed them, how to hold them carefully, and most importantly, how and where they sleep. Where a newborn baby sleep has a huge impact how the baby will grow up in a more psychological way. Infant sleeping arrangements and development both in the short term and long term, whether having positive or negative outcomes, is anything but simple and the traditional habit of labelling one sleeping arrangement as being superior to another without awareness of family, social and ethnic context is not only wrong, but possibly harmful (Mckenna,2005). With a newborn

     Finally, sleep is lost and never will be regained. During the first year of a baby’s life, parents, especially mothers, lose 700 or more hours of sleep. That is a lot. No wonder parents look like a walking zombie. When babies do sleep through the night, parents still wake up to check on them to make sure that they are comfortable and everything is all right. Unfortunately, babies aren’t the only cause for loss of sleep. Teenagers are to. They go out and stay

Recent research has proven that children just are not getting the sleep they need these days. Kids today seem to be doing poorer in school and have less attention spans. Most parents are not aware of a common problem effecting thousands of children in this country: sleep disorders. Parents often fail to follow there children's sleeping patterns which can result in some serious side effects if that child has a sleep disorder. A study done at Tulane University in New Orleans studied about 300 first graders that preformed poorly in school. They found that 18 per cent showed signs of a sleeping problem. The percentage of children with bad grades found to have sleeping problems