Sleeping Through the Night: A Developmental Perspective

摘要: This study examines falling asleep and night waking in human infants during the first 8 months of life. All-night time-lapse video recordings were obtained at 3 weeks age; a Sleep Habits Interview was completed these ages repeated age by telephone interview. At 3-week 3-month ages, self-report measures maternal psychologic distress, depression, self-esteem also obtained. The data are examined from both cross-sectional (age group) longitudnal (individual) perspectives. Parent-infant interactions bedtime middle changed significantly with increasing age. age, most put into their cribs for already asleep. When they awakened night, removed cribs. By time returned to cribs, again who crib awake allowed fall on own more likely return sleep after awakenings later night. In contrast, beginning be following subsequent nighttime awakening. Thus, pattern onset related an awakening association present as well. Infants used aids 7 21 identified mothers problem sleepers. All male still These individuals could not predicted or observations video-recorded sleep-wake state organization mother-infant interaction. authors speculate about interplay between regulation, interactions, sleep, temperament factors such self-esteem, stress.