ArticleArchives of women's mental health2016
Infant sleep and feeding patterns are associated with maternal sleep, stress, and depressed mood in women with a history of major depressive disorder (MDD).
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- Perinatal Physiological and Psychological Risk Factors and Childhood Sleep Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBP · 2022Pooled it
- The association between maternal perinatal mental health and perfectionism: A systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of clinical psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Longitudinal Infant Sleep Monitoring Using a Sensor-Enabled Responsive Bassinet: A Population-Scale Feasibility Study.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Complementary Feeding Frequency and Maternal Health: Reducing Anxiety and Improving Sleep Through Biobehavioral Pathways.Nature and science of sleep · 2026Article
- Perinatal depression impairs placental angiogenesis and fetal growth in mice: protective effects of betaine supplementation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Differential Maternal Physiological Stress Responses During Rooming-In: High Stress in Newborn Sleeping versus Relief in Breastfeeding.International journal of women's health · 2026Article
- Effects of Using a Smart Bassinet on the Mental Health of Military-Affiliated Pregnant Women: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Sleep Health and Mood in Newly Expectant Military Mothers (SHINE) Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Association between maternal stress and child sleep quality: a nationwide ECHO prospective cohort study.Pediatric research · 2025Article
- Maturation of infant sleep during the first 6 months of life: a mini-scoping review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Review
- Associations between sleep and circadian rhythm disruption and perinatal anxiety.Npj biological timing and sleep · 2025Review
- Cost-Effectiveness of Perinatal Depression Screening: A Scoping Review.Applied health economics and health policy · 2025Article
- Comparison of longitudinal PSQI and actigraphy-assessed sleep from pregnancy to postpartum.PloS one · 2025Article
- Proposed domains of postpartum sleep: a concept elicitation study using qualitative interviews.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2025Article
- Identifying and evaluating factors related to feeding disorders in children using the path analysis method.Przeglad gastroenterologiczny · 2025Article
- Assessing Response Rates and Sleep Disorder Prevalence: Insights from a Propranolol Treatment Study for Infantile Haemangiomas.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
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- ABM Clinical Protocol #37: Physiological Infant Care-Managing Nighttime Breastfeeding in Young Infants.Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine · 2023Article
- Does breastfeeding influence sleep? A longitudinal study across the first two postpartum years.Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · 2022Article
- Infant sleep and negative reactivity: The role of maternal adversity and perinatal sleep.Infant behavior & development · 2022Article
- A Chatbot to Engage Parents of Preterm and Term Infants on Parental Stress, Parental Sleep, and Infant Feeding: Usability and Feasibility Study.JMIR pediatrics and parenting · 2021Article
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Abstract
Our goal was to examine associations of infant sleep and feeding patterns with maternal sleep and mood among women at risk for postpartum depression. Participants were 30 women (age ± SD = 28.3 ± 5.1 years) with a history of MDD (but not in a mood episode at enrollment) who completed daily sleep diaries, wore wrist actigraphs to estimate sleep, and had their mood assessed with the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D-17) during four separate weeks of the perinatal period (33 weeks pregnancy and weeks 2, 6, and 16 postpartum). They logged their infants' sleep and feeding behaviors daily and reported postnatal stress on the Childcare Stress Inventory (CSI) at week 16. Mothers' actigraphically estimated sleep showed associations with infant sleep and feeding patterns only at postpartum week 2. Shorter duration of the longest infant-sleep bout was associated with shorter maternal sleep duration (p = .02) and lower sleep efficiency (p = .04), and maternal sleep efficiency was negatively associated with the number of infant-sleep bouts (p = .008) and duration of infant feeding (p = .008). Neither infant sleep nor feeding was associated with maternal sleep at 6 or 16 weeks, but more disturbed infant sleep and more frequent feeding at 6 weeks were associated with higher HAM-D scores at 6 and 16 weeks and higher CSI scores. Sleep in the mother-infant dyad is most tightly linked in the early postpartum weeks, but mothers continue to experience disturbed sleep and infant sleep and feeding behaviors continue to be associated with mothers' depressive symptoms and stress ratings as long as 16 weeks postpartum. These data imply that interventions designed to improve maternal sleep and postpartum mood should include both mothers and infants because improving infant sleep alone is not likely to improve maternal sleep, and poor infant sleep is linked to postpartum depression and stress.
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