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Moderate sleep deprivation produces impairments in cognitive and motor performance equivalent to legally
prescribed levels of alcohol intoxication
Research demonstrates that a sleep-deprived brain mimics an intoxicated brain.

Infant sleep and its relation with cognition and growth: a narrative review
This research demonstrates that infant sleep is vital in both learning and physical growth.

Mothers’ postpartum sleep disturbance is associated with the ability to sustain sensitivity toward infants
This research shows that mothers who don’t sleep well aren’t as emotionally available to their babies.

Depression and anger in fathers of unsettled infants


This research demonstrates that when babies experience sleep struggles and ongoing fussiness, fathers are more likely to
experience symptoms of depression and feel anger towards their baby.

Getting an Infant to Sleep: Graduated Extinction and Sleep Fading Are Effective
This research shows that attachment between parents and babies was not negatively impacted by sleep training.
Additionally, mothers’ and infants’ stress decreased following sleep training.

Sleep physiology and sleep disorders in childhood


This research demonstrates that both sleep struggles and sleep “success” can be learned. It also explains how circadian
rhythms impact sleep, how sleep pressure builds through awake time to help babies sleep, and how sleep cycles occur with
deeper sleep in the first part of the night and lighter sleep in the early morning hours.

Nap-dependent learning in infants


These findings demonstrate that napping is essential in memory and learning.

Sleep confers a benefit for retention of statistical language learning in 6.5 month old infants
This research demonstrates that sleep helps babies remember and process language.

Relationship between sleep/wake patterns, temperament and overall development in term infants over the first
year of life
This research shows that babies that sleep well at night are more approachable, flexible and have an easier temperament.

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Coexistence of Sleep and Feeding Disturbances in Young Children
This study shows that eating struggles in babies are often connected to poor sleep.

The relationship between the development of social competence and sleep in infants: a longitudinal study
This research shows that babies who sleep better have better social development.

Sleep and Social-Emotional Development in Infants and Toddlers


This study shows that later bedtimes and interrupted sleep can cause or increase social and emotional problems in children.

The Sleep-Immune Crosstalk in Health and Disease


This research demonstrates that quality sleep can improve immune responses.

Reducing postnatal depression, anxiety and stress using an infant sleep intervention
This research shows that better infant sleep can improve a mother’s stress, anxiety, and depression.

Shortened sleep fuels inflammatory responses to marital conflict: Emotional regulation matters
This study shows that even 14 nights of poor sleep for parents (or even just one parent) can increase conflict, negatively
impact mood, and decrease empathy in a marriage.

Behavioral Treatment of Bedtime Problems and Night Wakings in Infants and Young Children
This research demonstrates that (in 52 studies) sleep training resulted in better sleep for babies and also improved both the
baby and family’s well-being.

Infant-parent attachment: Definition, types, antecedents, measurement and outcome


This research shows that sleep training does not negatively impact attachment as long as a baby’s physical needs are met.

Behavioral Interventions for Infant Sleep Problems: A Randomized Controlled Trial


This research found that sleep training provided significant sleep benefits while causing no negative stress responses
(measured by cortisol), long-term effects on attachment, or impacts on the child’s behavior.

Cry Babies: Cortisol Research and Secure Attachment


Dr. Mona of The PedsDocTalk Podcast deep dives the research about sleep training and crying.

SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant
Sleeping Environment
This article shows the latest recommendations for safe sleep published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The Long-Term Effects of Light Exposure on Establishment of Newborn Circadian Rhythm


This research shows the importance of light exposure during the day and darkness at night in promoting the development of
a baby’s normal circadian rhythm.

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White noise and sleep induction.
This study demonstrates that white noise helps babies fall asleep.

The role of adenosine in the regulation of sleep


This research talks about how adenosine helps the body fall asleep.

Bedtime Routines for Young Children: A Dose-Dependent Association with Sleep Outcomes
The results of this study show that babies with a consistent bedtime routine slept better.

Developmental aspects of sleep hygiene


This research shows that baby sleep improves when babies fall asleep independently, have an earlier bedtime and follow a
consistent bedtime routine.

Sleeping through the night: a developmental perspective


This study demonstrates that babies who were put into the crib awake at bedtime and allowed to fall asleep on their own
were more likely to fall back to sleep on their own during any awakenings later in the night.

Defining and distinguishing infant behavioral states using acoustic cry analysis
This study shows that caregivers struggle to distinguish between cries of distress and need or cries without distress because
of their own mental state.

Acoustic Correlates and Adult Perceptions of Distress in Infant Speech-Like Vocalizations and Cries
This research shows that babies cry for many reasons including a range from distress to non-distress. Non-distress sounds
and cries are the beginnings of speech.

Patterns of Reinforcement and Resistance to Extinction in Young Children


This study shows intermittent reinforcement encourages young children to continue the behavior in question.

Stress contagion: physiological covariation between mothers and infants


This research shows that parents and babies mirror each other’s emotional states.

New perspectives on the role of melatonin in human sleep, circadian rhythms and their regulation
This research shows that melatonin is low during the day and surges in the early part of the night. It also shows how light can
block melatonin, making sleep more difficult.

Sleep and physical growth in infants during the first 6 months


This research shows that offering night feedings (specifically breastfeeding) does not correlate with physical growth.
However, sleep is significantly tied to physical growth.

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Infant Sleep and Night Feeding Patterns During Later Infancy: Association with Breastfeeding Frequency,
Daytime Complementary Food Intake, and Infant Weight
This research shows that baby sleep is not different between breastfeeding or formula feeding. It also shows that offering
more calories during the day reduced the need for night feedings.

Sleep and sleep ecology in the first 3 years: a web‐based study


This study finds that better night sleep is associated with a separate sleeping space between parent and child, not feeding to
sleep, and a regular bedtime routine.

Development of infant and toddler sleep patterns


This research shows that night consolidation occurs starting at about 5 months of age, and that daytime sleep becomes
consistent and consolidated at a later age.

Development of Sleep in Infants and Children


This research discusses the development of consolidated night sleep from birth to 6 months.

An Evidentiary Review Regarding the Use of Chronological and Adjusted Age in the Assessment of
Preterm Infants
This research discusses how and why using adjusted age is appropriate for babies born prior to 37 weeks.

Fourteen- Through 18-month-old Infants Differentially Imitate Intentional And Accidental Actions
This research demonstrates that at an average age of 13-14 months infants can understand and initiate cause and effect.

12-Month-Old Infants Represent Probable Endings of Motion Events


This research shows evidence that at 12 months old, babies are able to anticipate outcomes or effects from specific actions.

Cumulative contextual risk, maternal responsivity, and social cognition at 18 months | Development
and Psychopathology
This research discusses the development of 18 month old children in understanding that they are distinct individuals with
their own motivation, and that they are able to start acting with intentionality.

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