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| Paying attention to relationship between parenting and infant sleep |
| WANG Guanghai1,2, WU Ran3, DENG Yujiao1,2, JIANG Yanrui1,2, JIANG Fan1,2 |
| 1.Department of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics, Pediatric Translational Medicine Institute, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai 200127, China; 2. MOE-Shanghai Key Laboratory of Children's Environmental Health, Shanghai 200092, China; 3.Counseling and Psychological Services Center, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China |
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Abstract Infancy is a stage of dramatic evolution of individual sleep when behavioral sleep problems such as difficulty falling asleep and frequent and prolonged night wakings are very common. According to the transactional model of infant sleep, parenting and related parental factors as well as parent-child interaction play important roles in infant sleep. Parenting-focused intervention proves to be effective for infant sleep problems and has become more and more professionalized, individualized and systematized. Given lacking of professional resources, sleep consultants sprung up as a new business, who provide consultation and suggestion to parents with infant sleep problems, particularly in terms of parenting adjustment. However, the statement from the Society of Behavioral Sleep Medicine (SBSM) in US expressed concern about professional backgrounds of sleep consultants and recommended caution in using sleep consultants.
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