Why sleeping alone ‘is good for babies’: Study finds children who share bed with their parents were more likely to suffer disrupted nights.
Researchers say longer baby shares the more troubled
sleep it will have
Breastfeeding related to frequent awakenings at six
months but not later
Study used 56,000 reports from mothers who recorded
their child's sleep
Bringing a crying baby into the marital bed in the hope of getting a good night’s sleep is a strategy for failure, said experts yesterday.
They found that the longer an
18-month-old had bed-shared with its parents, the more likely it would be to
suffer troubled and shortened sleep.
Researchers said around 56,000
reports by mothers of child sleep were used in the study, taking data from the
Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study.
Researchers said that a total
of 55,831 mother reports of child sleep were used in the study to estimate the
stability and predictors of awakenings and short sleep.
They found that babies that
have a higher chance of having troubled and shortened sleep at 18-months-old,
the longer they had bed-shared with their parents in the past.
Dr Hysing said: 'The longer the
child shared a bed with their parents, the greater the chance was of short
sleep duration and frequent awakenings at 18 months of age.
'Breastfeeding was related to
frequent awakenings at six months age, but not associated with sleeping
problems later.'
Researchers found that babies have a higher chance of having troubled and shortened sleep at 18-months-old, the longer they had bed-shared with their parents in the past
In the study, the definition of
bed sharing were children who slept more than half the night alongside their
parents.
The project was a collaboration
between researchers from the University of Bergen, which is a specialised
research university, the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and the
University of California, Berkeley, USA.
The data researchers analysed
came from the unique Norwegian Mother and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), conducted
at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health.
The study was published in
Journal of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics.
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