Observational studyScientific reports2021
Association of maternal sleep before and during pregnancy with sleep and developmental problems in 1-year-old infants.
Observational study in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
14 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sleep During Pregnancy and Offspring Outcomes From Infancy to Childhood: A Systematic Review.Biopsychosocial science and medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Maternal Mental Health and Offspring Brain Development: An Umbrella Review of Prenatal Interventions.Biological psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- Longitudinal associations of DNA methylation and sleep in children: a meta-analysis.Clinical epigenetics · 2022Pooled it
- Maternal sleep deprivation and developmental programming of brain aging trajectories in offspring.Biogerontology · 2026Review
- Maternal Cardiovascular Health During Pregnancy and Offspring Developmental Delay.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- A review of sleep-related indicators measured in large population-based cohort studies in Japan.Environmental health and preventive medicine · 2026Review
- The association between maternal sleep and circadian rhythms during pregnancy and infant sleep and socioemotional outcomes.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Infants' early recovery from sleep disturbance is associated with a lower risk of developmental delay in the Japan Environment and Children's Study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Prenatal sleep health and risk of offspring ADHD symptomatology and associated phenotypes: a prospective analysis of timing and sex differences in the ECHO cohort.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2023Article
- Maternal Sleep Problems in the Periconceptional Period and the Impact on Health of Mother and Offspring: A Systematic Review.Clocks & sleep · 2022Review
- Association of physical activity and sleep habits during pregnancy with autistic spectrum disorder in 3-year-old infants.Communications medicine · 2022Article
- Association of sleep quality with temperament among one-month-old infants in The Japan Environment and Children's Study.PloS one · 2022Article
- Neurological development in 36-month-old children conceived via assisted reproductive technology: The Japan Environment and Children's Study.Reproductive medicine and biologyArticle
- Preventing recurrence of postpartum depression by regulating sleep.Expert review of neurotherapeuticsReview
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
13 authors at 16 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
This study investigated the association of maternal sleep before and during pregnancy with sleeping and developmental problems in 1-year-old infants. We used data from the Japan Environment and Children's Study, which registered 103,062 pregnancies between 2011 and 2014. Participants were asked about their sleep habits prior to and during pregnancy. Follow-up assessments were conducted to evaluate the sleep habits and developmental progress of their children at the age of 1 year. Development during infancy was evaluated using the Ages and Stages Questionnaire (ASQ). Maternal short sleep and late bedtime before and during pregnancy increased occurrence of offspring's sleeping disturbances. For example, infants whose mothers slept for less than 6 h prior to pregnancy tended to be awake for more than 1 h (risk ratio [RR] = 1.49, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.34-1.66), sleep less than 8 h during the night (RR = 1.60, 95% CI 1.44-1.79), and fall asleep at 22:00 or later (RR = 1.33, 95% CI 1.26-1.40). Only subjective assessments of maternal sleep quality during pregnancy, such as very deep sleep and feeling very good when waking up, were inversely associated with abnormal ASQ scores in 1-year-old infants.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.