The Effect of Preventive Guidance on Infants' Sleep and Parents' Well-Being
Isr J Psychiatry - Vol. 56 - No 2 (2019) MIRIAM FINK LAVI ET AL. The Effect of Preventive Guidance on Infants’ Sleep and Parents' Well-being Miriam Fink Lavi, MD,1,3 David Mankuta, MD,2,3 Julia Tamir Doljansky, MA,4 and Yoav Kohn, MD, MHA1,3 1 Department of Children and Adolescents, Jerusalem Mental Health Center, Eitanim Psychiatric Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel 2 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Hadassah University Medical Center, Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel 3 Hebrew University – Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel 4 Psychologist in private practice for sleep disorders INTRODUCTION ABSTRACT About 30% of children under five years old suffer from Background: Sleep problems in infants negatively behavioral sleep problems: a need for prolonged presence affect quality of life and mental health of both babies of parents while falling asleep, waking up crying during and parents. Appropriate guidance for parents can the night, difficulty to wean from nocturnal feeding and assist in prevention. We assessed whether a preventive a tendency to move into the parents’ bed (1-3). While behavioral plan, emphasizing dissociation of feeding this situation affects the parents’ sleep and their ability to from sleep, can encourage independent sleep induction function under sleep deprivation, the children themselves in newborns, enable uninterrupted sleep and reduce are the ones who suffer the most. Deep and continuous maternal depression. sleep is essential for normal physiology and develop- Methods: Sixty-one mothers were recruited up to one ment (3-8). Emotional ramifications of intermittent sleep month postpartum. Thirty-two were selected randomly to include continuous frustration and suffering.
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