"Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2015 17:45:21 +0000From: heather <[log in to unmask]>Subject: interesting and counter-intuitive study on co-sleeping
I'm trying to get the whole paper.
This paper found bed-sharing was associated with *poorer* infant-materbal bonding.
At first glance, and it is a glance, the abstract seems to me to indicate the study might not be powered enough to make the distinctions. Also, the mothers who bed-shared might not actually like doing it....and be therefore irritated with their babies.
Comments?
Mitchell EA, Hutchison BL, Thompson JM, et al.Exploratory study of bed-sharing and maternal-infant bonding.J Paediatr Child Health 2015;doi: 10.1111/jpc.12833.
AIM: Bed-sharing with an infant is controversial due to the increased risk of sudden unexpected death in infancy versus postulated benefits of the practice such as enhanced breastfeeding and maternal-infant bonding. This study evaluated the association between bed-sharing and maternal-infant bonding. METHODS: Four hundred randomly selected mothers who had delivered in a large maternity unit in Auckland and whose infants were between the ages of 6 weeks and 4 months were sent a postal questionnaire asking about their bed-sharing practices last night, usually, and in the last 2 weeks. Included in the questionnaire were factors 1 and 2 questions from the Postpartum Bonding Questionnaire to assess maternal-infant bonding.
RESULTS: Responders totalled 172 (43%), and infants were a mean age of 11 weeks. Fourteen per cent of infants slept in a bed-sharing situation last night, 8% usually, and 41% had slept with an adult in the last 2 weeks. Nine per cent of mothers scored above the cut-off for factor 1 for impaired maternal-infant bonding. Infants of these mothers were more likely to bed-share last night, usually, and in the last 2 weeks, and were less likely to use a pacifier and to breastfeed. Bed-sharing mothers scored more highly on individual questions relating to being annoyed or irritated by their baby. CONCLUSION: There is an inverse association between bed-sharing and maternal-infant bonding, which is contrary to the often expressed belief that bed-sharing enhances maternal-infant bonding.
Heather Welford NeilNCT bfc, tutor, UK-- "~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I wonder if those mothers who scored more highly irritated or annoyed by the baby are not co-sleeping because they planned to but because the baby irritates them when sleeping separately, and co-sleeping is the only way to keep them from crying at night so the parents can get any sleep at all. Reactive vs. proactive co-sleeping. Also, responders may have been in the group that was more irritated with co-sleeping, while those who were happy sleeping with their babies didn't feel the need to respond.
Julie Tardos
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