Something to make our stomachs churn? Sounds a bit along the lines of ezzo
to me. Like there is something wrong with youn if you don't sleep through
the night by 12 weeks? What is sleeping through the night anyow?

At least their findings were similar for breast and artificially fed
infants, no blaming the breastfeeding this time! Has anyone read this study?
I'd be interested in the 'behavioural modification programme'.

groetjes

Sara Bernard

The Netherlands

 Arch Dis Child 2003 Feb;88(2):108-11
Preventing sleeping problems in infants who are at risk of developing them.

Nikolopoulou M, St James-Roberts I.
Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London,
UK.
AIMS: (1) To identify factors at 1 week of age which put infants at risk of
failing to sleep through the night at 12 weeks of age. (2) To assess whether
a behavioural programme increases the likelihood that these infants will
sleep through the night at 12 weeks of age. METHODS: A community sample of
316 newborn infants was employed to identify the risk factors at 1 week of
age which increased the likelihood of failing to sleep through the night at
12 weeks of age. Infants who met these risk criteria and were randomly
assigned to a behavioural programme were compared with at risk infants in
the control group on measures of sleeping, crying, and feeding at 12 weeks
of age. RESULTS: Infants who had a high number (>11) of feeds in 24 hours at
1 week were 2.7 times (95% CI 1.5 to 4.8) more likely than other control
group infants to fail to sleep through the night at 12 weeks of age. At 12
weeks, 82% of these at risk infants assigned to the behavioural programme,
compared to 61% in the control group, slept through the night. The findings
were similar in breast and bottle feeders. CONCLUSIONS: Preventing infant
sleeping problems should be more cost effective than treating them after
they have arisen. This study provides evidence that it is possible to
identify infants who are at risk of failing to sleep through the night at an
early age, and that a simple, three step, preventive behavioural programme
increases the number who sleep through the night by 21%.


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