Exclusive breastfeeding at three months and infant sleep-wake behaviors at two weeks,three and six months |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Psychology, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal;2. School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, USA;1. Department of Dynamic and Clinical Psychology, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy;2. Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, UCSC, Rome, Italy;1. Division of Clinical Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK;2. Primary Care and Population Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK;3. Evelina London Children''s Hospital, Guys St Thomas''s NHS Trust, UK;4. Sheffield Children''s Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK;5. Southampton Children''s Hospital, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, UK;6. Southampton Centre for Biomedical Research Unit, University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust, UK;7. Coventry University, UK;8. Saint Joseph''s University and Children''s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, USA;9. School of Clinical and Experimental Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK;1. The School of Psychological Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel;2. Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel;3. Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel |
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| Abstract: | This study assessed infant sleep-wake behavior at two weeks, three and six months as function of feeding method at three months (exclusively breastfed, partially breastfed, and exclusively formula fed infants). Mothers of 163 first-born, full-term, normal birth weight, healthy infants completed socio-demographic, depression, anxiety, and infant sleep-wake behavior measures. No effects were found for sleep arrangements, depression or anxiety, on feeding methods and sleep-wake behavior at three months. At two weeks exclusively breastfed infants at three months spent more hours sleeping and less hours awake during the 24-h period than partially breastfed infants. At three months, exclusively breastfed infants had a shorter of the longest sleep period at night than exclusively formula fed infants. At six months, exclusively breastfed infants at three months spent more hours awake at night than partially breastfed infants, awake more at night than exclusively formula fed infants, and had a shorter sleep period at night than partially breastfed and exclusively formula fed infants. This study showed differences in sleep-wake behaviors at two weeks, three and six months, when exclusively breastfed infants are compared with partially breastfed and exclusively formula fed infants at three months, while no effects were found for sleep arrangements, depression or anxiety. |
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| Keywords: | Exclusive breastfeeding Feeding method Infant sleep Sleep-wake behavior |
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