Serial Talk: Geschlechtsneutrale Erziehung

Wie man ein Baby am besten zum Schlafen bringt

Eine Studie zur besten Methode ein Baby zum Schlafen zu bringen:

Highlights

• Infant cry is attenuated by transport, but not by motionless holding

• 5-min transport promotes sleep for crying infants even in the daytime
  Laydown of sleeping infants into a cot either interrupts or deepens infants’ sleep

• Laydown at 5 to 8 min after the sleep onset tends to prevent infant awakening

Summary

Approximately 20%–30% of infants cry excessively and exhibit sleep difficulties for no apparent reason, causing parental stress and even triggering impulsive child maltreatment in a small number of cases.1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 While several sleep training methods or parental education programs may provide long-term improvement of infant cry and sleep problems, there is yet to be a conclusive recommendation for on-site behavioral interventions.9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Previously we have reported that brief carrying of infants transiently reduces infant cry via the transport response, a coordinated set of vagal activation and behavioral calming conserved in altricial mammals.14, 15, 16, 17, 18 In this study, we disentangled complex infant responses to maternal holding and transport by combining subsecond-scale, event-locked physiological analyses with dynamic mother-infant interactions. Infant cry was attenuated either by maternal carrying or by reciprocal motion provided by a moving cot, but not by maternal holding. Five-minute carrying promoted sleep for crying infants even in the daytime when these infants were usually awake, but not for non-crying infants. Maternal laydown of sleeping infants into a cot exerted bimodal effects, either interrupting or deepening the infants’ sleep. During laydown, sleeping infants were alerted most consistently by the initiation of maternal detachment, then calmed after the completion of maternal detachment in a successful laydown. Finally, the sleep outcome after laydown was associated with the sleep duration before the laydown onset. These data propose a “5-min carrying, 5- to 8- min sitting” scheme for attending to infant cry and sleep difficulties, which should be further substantiated in future studies.

Quelle:A method to soothe and promote sleep in crying infants utilizing the transport response

Aus einem Bericht über die Studie:

Eltern sollten ihr weinendes Kind etwa fünf Minuten eng an den eigenen Körper geschmiegt in gleichmäßigem Tempo herumtragen, möglichst ohne abrupte Bewegungen, berichtet das Team im angesehenen Fachjournal „Current Biology“. Sobald es eingeschlafen ist, sollen sie sich demnach noch etwa acht Minuten mit ihm hinsetzen und es erst danach zum Schlafen hinlegen .

Ich werde es mal ausprobieren und berichten.

Ich habe den Artikel gestern relativ spät geschrieben und finde die Sprache der Studie herrlich, weil sie etwas vermeintliches einfaches so wunderbar kompliziert darstellt:

his study employed four conditions (Figure 1A): (1) WalkHold, the mother held the infant and walked (Figure 1B); (2) SitHold, the mother held the infant and sat; (3) COT, the infant was laid in a cot; and (4) MCOT, the infant was placed in a mobile crib or stroller and was moved in a reciprocal motion manually. The MCOT was performed only when these devices were made available by the participants. This experimental design segregates the effects of maternal holding and motion (Figure 1A), the two sensory components involved in the induction of the transport response.14 Each task lasted either 30 s (short condition) or 5 min (long condition) and was alternated randomly in one session (Figure 1C). The mothers were informed that they could skip a condition when they felt tired or uncomfortable letting their infant cry.

 

Eine Erklärung der Begriffe, nette Grafiken, die das noch einmal erläutern.

Es geht weiter:

We examined the effects of WalkHold, SitHold, COT, and MCOT on infant ISS and IBI separately for the infants who were crying, alert, and asleep at the end of the preceding condition (“pre” in Figure 2), partly based on our previous study.14 For the crying-start infants, short WalkHold and MCOT decreased cry (Figures 2A and S1) and increased the mISS and mIBI (Figures 2B and 2C). SitHold did not alter the ratio of crying infants or mISS and decreased mIBI only (Figures 2A–2C). The mIBI decrease by SitHold was pronounced when the preceding condition was COT (Figures 2C and S1A–S1C), which might reflect the autonomic cardiovascular adaptation to the postural change from supine to upright.21 Conversely, transitions to COT did not affect mISS but slightly increased mIBI (Figures 2B and 2C).

Das war gestern zu viel für mich. Müde wie ich gerade bin nehme ich lieber nur den Hinweis aus dem Bericht.

Ich habe verstanden: Rumgehen, damit das Kind in den Tragemodus fällt. Dann das Kind noch etwas im Arm haben und sich hinsetzen, damit es noch die Umarmung fühlt und sich sicher fühlt und deswegen tiefer einschläft. Dann ins Bett legen.

Vielleicht könnt ihr mir die Feinheiten verraten. Ich gehe schlafen