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>
>Franco P, Scaillet S, Wermenbol V, Valente F, Groswasser J, Kahn A.
>The influence of a pacifier on infants' arousals from sleep.
>J Pediatr. 2000 Jun;136(6):775-9.
>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=10839876&dopt=Abstract
>
>If that is true, then a recommendation that *bottle-fed* infants use pacifiers would make sense.
>
Help out the statistically challenged here...
Is it arousals that help protect against SIDS? I have understood from
McKenna's research that bottle-fed babies wake less easily and less
often than bf ones, and I reinforce that impression when I hear it from
mothers of bf babies. What I don't understand, though, is why we still
try to find sleep and comfort measures to help babies from startling
themselves awake too often. Am I oversimplifying? Is it a question of an
ideal norm? In that case, wouldn't the norm of co-sleeping, frequently
breastfeeding babies throughout a large portion of a mother's adult life
provide the norm for adult sleep, too?
Also, can someone help me understand what triggers arousal, and if it is
related to hormonal states? I know apnea can be related to various
respiratory and heart malfunctions.
Of course, in families in which sustained breastfeeding of several
children occurs, the interrupted sleep of mothering simply merges into
the low sleep needs of menopause. It is in this state that I really
question how much sleep adults really need.
Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes, PhD, IBCLC, from a family of origin of low sleep
needs, married to a nearly-non-sleeper, and passing on that tendency...
after my afternoon nap, that is.
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