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Attachment parenting is a parenting philosophy characterized by practices such as baby-wearing (carrying infants in slings or holding them frequently), long-term breastfeeding, co-sleeping (sharing the parental bed with the baby), and promptly responding to a baby's cries. [13] Popular sleep training methods, such as the Ferber Method, rely on ...
In the first week of life, infants will sleep during both the day and night and will wake to feed. Sleep cycle duration is usually short, from 2–4 hours. [7] Over the first two weeks, infants average 16–18 hours of sleep daily. Circadian rhythm has not yet been established and infants sleep during the night and day equally. [3]
Secrets of the Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby. Melinda Blau (1st ed.). New York: Ballantine Books. ISBN 0-345-44075-7. OCLC 45283036. Ezzo, Gary (2012). On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep. Robert Bucknam (5th ed.). Mount Pleasant, SC: Parent-Wise Solutions. ISBN 978-1 ...
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On Becoming Baby Wise: Giving Your Infant the Gift of Nighttime Sleep is a Christianity-based infant management book written by Gary Ezzo and pediatrician Robert Bucknam in 1993. [1] Baby Wise presents an infant care program which the authors say will cause babies to sleep through the night beginning between seven and nine weeks of age. It ...
The Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale (NBAS), also known as the Brazelton Neonatal Assessment Scale (BNAS), [1] was developed in 1973 by T. Berry Brazelton and his colleagues. [2] This test purports to provide an index of a newborn's abilities, and is usually given to an infant somewhere between the age of 3 days to 4 weeks old. [1]
A plot of SIDS rate from 1988 to 2006. The Safe to Sleep campaign, formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign, [1] is an initiative backed by the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the US National Institutes of Health to encourage parents to have their infants sleep on their backs (supine position) to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
The sleep diary, or sleep log, is a tool used by doctors and patients. [1] [2] [3] It is a useful resource in the diagnosis and treatment of especially circadian rhythm sleep disorders, and in monitoring whether treatment of those and other sleep disorders is successful. Sleep diaries may be used in conjunction with actigraphy.