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Does your newborn sleep through the night? In the first few weeks, new born babies sleep a lot.
They will not sleep when you want them to sleep.
There are many reasons that your newborn have trouble to sleep. Sleep problems are common in newborns.
The main thing is that they don’t know the difference between day and night. The other reason of newborn sleep problem is they can’t hold enough milk in their tiny stomach and after few hours they wake up for milk.
Newborn baby sleep can be affected when they are exposed to bright light or conversational speech sounds.
Follow these tips for your newborn sleep:
As the newborns don’t know the difference between day and night, you should establish the surrounding environment suitable for your baby. The room should be quiet, calm, dark and unstimulating to make your baby understand that it is the time to sleep.
Newborn sleeps eight to nine hours during daytime and about seven to eight hours at nighttime. They will be ready to drink milk for every three to four hours. At nighttime, there is no need to wake your newborn for feeding unless your doctor suggests it.
The research found that snoring is in fact part of the spectrum of childhood allergic diseases.
So whilst the condition looks and sounds similar in adults and children it can have quite different causes and risk factors.
The study published in the latest edition of the international medical journal, Pediatric Pulmonology has established children with rhinitis who were first born, were exposed to maternal tobacco smoke during the first year of life and/or who had asthma and/or eczema at age five years were more likely to snore.
Breastfeeding, birth weight, body mass index at age 4.5 years and respiratory function whilst awake were found to be unrelated.
The study cohort was drawn from participants in the Australian Childhood Asthma Prevention Study (CAPS) - a randomised controlled trial of dietary intervention and house dust mite avoidance during the first five years of life.
219 children within the original study group had rhinitis and of these, 213 could provide information on snoring. Almost 60% of these children snored at least once per week including 26% who snored more than three nights per week. This is a very high prevalence in five year old children and is partly due to all of the children having rhinitis which is often found in children who snore.
A childhood sleep-related breathing disorder (SRBD) is known to have negative consequences on cognitive development, behavior, quality of life and utilization of health care resources.
However, a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS), finds that breastfeeding may provide long-term protection against the incidence or severity of a childhood SRBD.
The study, conducted by Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs, PhD, of West Virginia University, focused on the parents of those children who underwent overnight polysomnography, who filled out a brief survey about whether the child had been breast, formula or both breast and formula fed as an infant. There were 197 surveys completed.
The average age of the children at the time of polysomnography was 6.7 years. Fifty-two percent of them were formula fed, 10 percent breast fed and 38 percent both breast and formula fed as infants.
It was discovered that children who were breast fed for at least two months as infants had lower rates and less severe measures of an SRBD, and that breast feeding beyond two months provided additional benefits for reduced disorder severity.
Working an extended duration shift can pose a risk to not only the safety and well-being of medical interns, but also to that of their patients, according to a research abstract presented at SLEEP 2007, the 21st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies (APSS).
The study, authored by Laura Barger, PhD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, was based on 2,737 physicians in their first post-graduate year, who participated in a nationwide Web-based survey, completing a total of 17,003 monthly reports.
A regression analysis was performed to determine the relationship between the number of extended duration work shifts (greater than or equal to 24 hours in length), reported medical errors and a self-reported measure of stress.
It was discovered that the reporting of medical errors and the number of extended duration shifts worked in a month were both significant predictors of stress.
Compared to months in which no extended duration shifts were worked, interns working five or more extended duration shifts had seven times greater odds of reporting at least one fatigue-related significant medical error that resulted in an adverse patient event and reported 300 percent more fatigue-related preventable adverse events resulting in the death of the patient.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurological condition characterized by inattention, impulsivity and hyperactivity.
Sleep disorders are uncontrolled in children who have ADHD.
Sleep disorders can be a symptom of a disorder such as ADHD, anxiety disorders, depression, a side effect of medication, induced lifestyle such as caffeine, alcohol, obesity, or a primary sleep disorder.
Whether obstructive sleep apnea can cause ADHD and learning disorders? During sleep, your throat muscles relax causing snoring.
In obstructive sleep apnea, your breathing stops between snoring. Therefore oxygen to the brain is reduced and disrupts the sleep cycle. The condition causes hypertension, depression, heart problems, and brain damage in adults.
In children, obstructive sleep apnea has effects on physical growth, development and respiration. Neurocognitive deficit also occurs in children with sleep related breathing disorder.
Therefore impairments in verbal and non-verbal intelligence, psychomotor efficiency, memory, concentration and psychosocial functioning occur. Symptoms of impulsivity, distractibility and hyperactivity which are similar to ADHD are reported.
The common cause of sleep related disordered breathing in children is upper airway obstruction. Due to this problem, snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea are resulted.
Smoking during pregnancy is not good for unborn child.
But, the fact is that pregnant women still smoke cigarettes during their pregnancy.
Many women are unaware of the fact that how harmful cigarette smoking is on their unborn child and how smoking cigarettes during pregnancy is one of the major causes of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
Causes of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) due to smoking:
Cigarette smoke contains chemicals like carbon monoxide, tar, and nicotine which are considered to be most dangerous substances for the fetus. It is also proven long before that these chemicals extremely effect the development of fetus inside the mother’s womb.
Pregnant women who smoke are under risk of ectopic pregnancy. This is especially possible when you are a heavy smoker during the first trimester of pregnancy. Ectopic pregnancy means embryo is embedded outside the uterus which is opposite to what normal pregnancy should be. The fetus has to be removed in ectopic pregnancy as this kind of pregnancy never survives.
Second hand smoke can also damage the child’s health and can lead to SIDS. Children whose parents smoke are most seriously affected by exposure to second hand smoke and are at increased risk of lower respiratory tract infections such as pneumonia and bronchitis.
Parents of children with sleep problems are more likely to have sleep-related problems themselves, including more daytime sleepiness, according to a new study by researchers at the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Brown Medical School.
“While most parents can testify that having a child with sleeping problems affects their own sleep, few scientific studies have looked at the relationship between children’s and parents’ sleep,” says lead author Julie Boergers, PhD, with the Bradley Hasbro Children’s Research Center and Brown Medical School, and co-director of the Pediatric Sleep Disorders Clinic of Hasbro Children’s Hospital.
The authors studied 107 families seeking treatment for their children aged 2 to 12 at a pediatric sleep disorders clinic, and found a link between children’s and parents’ sleep problems.
For both parents, having a child with more than one sleep disorder was associated with greater parental daytime sleepiness. Children in the study had a broad range of sleep problems, including obstructive sleep apnea, sleep terrors, insomnia [Insomnia Treatment], and bedtime refusal.
The study appears in the March 2007 issue of the Journal of Family Psychology.
Bed wetting, also known as sleep enuresis, is problematic not only for the child but also for the family members.
Parents agree that bed wetting ranks third sleep disorder in terms of stressors [Stress and Stressors] on the family.
It is an issue many families face every night. It is common under the age of five but sometimes it continues after the age of five.
Primary bed wetting occurs if the child has never been dry at night or is only occasionally dry at night. Secondary bed wetting occurs after a child has been dry at night for a prolonged period.
Kidney or bladder disorder and emotional situation is the rare cause of bed wetting. The parents should remember that children do not voluntarily wet the bed. Kids feel embarrassed and guilty about bed wetting.
Children do not participate in social activities that require sleeping outside their home. They often suffer from self image and their feelings can be greatly affected by the attitudes of their parents who feel that their efforts to stop the bed wetting have failed.
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