Behavioral entrainment of human milk-fed infants' sleep patterns

"To investigate whether infants who were exclusively breast-fed could be taught to sleep through the night (defined from 12 a.m. to 5 a.m.) from an early age, twenty- six first-time parents and their infants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: treatment and control. Treatment parents were instructed to offer a ""focal feed"" (between 10 p.m. and 12 a.m.) to their infants every night, to maximize environmental differences between day and nighttime, and to minimize their responses to the infants' middle of the night awakenings; parents in the control group were given no instructions. All parents kept 72-hour records of their infants' feeding and sleeping patterns every week from birth to eight weeks of age and completed several questionnaires: Hassles and Uplifts Scale, Marital Adjustment Test, Parental Efficacy Questionnaire, and Infant Temperament Questionnaire."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human and Community Development

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Pinilla, Teresa

Contributors dc:contributor

• Birch, Leann L.

• Psychology, Developmental

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1992 Pinilla, Teresa

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI9236570
(UMI)AAI9236570

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21676