Health officials: Sleeping beside your baby is not safe
By Mike Montecalvo | Published: May 8, 2017, 5:00 pm | Updated: May 8, 2017, 8:22 pm |WPRI.com EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Sleeping in the same bed with your baby may sound logical, even comforting. But health officials warn it’s not safe. Now, a mother is speaking out after her newborn died right next to her. Amanda Saucedo is a mother of three and said after her second baby, she never really understood the dangers of co-sleeping. She tells Eyewitness News the bedtime routine was the same every night: she would put her newborn son, Ben, to sleep in …
SLEEP PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN WITH AUTISM
Sowmya Nath | Interactive Autism Network at Kennedy Krieger Institute | August 14, 2013 | IANCommunity.org Most parents struggle at one time or other to get their children to sleep. Tantrums before bedtime, waking up at night, refusing to fall back asleep are common behaviors in children. If your child is experiencing any of these problems, you are definitely not alone. Though the numbers vary from study to study, researchers estimate that 26 percent to 32 percent of typically-developing children experience sleep problems. An even larger portion of children (estimates range from 53 to 78 percent) with autism spectrum disorder …
‘Touchscreen-toddlers’ sleep less, researchers say
By James Gallagher | Health and science reporter, BBC News website April 13, 2017 | BBC.com Toddlers who spend time playing on smartphones and tablets seem to get slightly less sleep than those who do not, say researchers. The study in Scientific Reports suggests every hour spent using a touchscreen each day was linked to 15 minutes less sleep. However, those playing with touchscreens do develop their fine motor skills more quickly. Experts said the study was “timely” but parents should not lose sleep over it. There has been an explosion in touchscreens in the home, but understanding their impact …
It might not be a tantrum. Your sleepy child could be overtired.
HEALTH & FITNESS | MARCH 20, 2017 7:35 PM | BY LEONARDO TORRES, M.D. UHealthSystem.com She’s cranky and uncooperative. He’s hyperactive and having difficulty paying attention. They can’t wake up in the morning and are falling asleep at the kitchen table. If this is your child, they might not be getting enough sleep — even though you are getting them to bed on time and keeping them on a schedule. Sleep is essential for brain development and health. When your kids don’t get enough sleep, they can suffer in school, have mood issues and get sick more easily. Lack of …
Should children get their tonsils taken out?
By Jacqueline Howard, CNN | Updated 9:53 AM ET, Tue January 17, 2017 | CNN.com (CNN) If you’re questioning whether tonsillectomy — a surgical procedure to remove the tonsils — can really improve sleep and throat health in children, new research suggests to cut it out. Tonsillectomies help breathing during sleep and might reduce throat infections in the short term, according to two separate papers from researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, published Tuesday in the journal Pediatrics. More research is needed to determine longer-term effects, researchers said. “While these results are not surprising, they offer a more nuanced look at …
Sharp rise in number of children admitted to hospital with sleep problems
The disorders include sleep apnea, insomnia and narcolepsy, as well as nightmares and sleepwalking BY CLAIRE MILLER & EMMA GILL | 3 FEB 2017 | ManchesterEveningNews.co.uk The number of Manchester children admitted to hospital with sleeping problems has risen by a tenth in a year. Figures from NHS Digital show the number of hospital admissions with a primary diagnosis of sleeping disorders, which covers problems like sleep apnea, insomnia and narcolepsy, as well as nightmares and sleepwalking. There were at least 373 admissions in 2015/16 of children aged 18 and under with a primary diagnosis of sleeping disorders from the …
Kids’ tonsillectomies make more sense for sleep apnea than strep throat
Published January 18, 2017 | FoxNews.com Children who have their tonsils removed to treat chronic throat infections or breathing problems during sleep may get more short-term symptom relief than kids who don’t get tonsillectomies, two recent studies suggest. Over time, however, the benefits of surgery for chronic streptococcal throat infections appear to go away. Three years after tonsillectomies, children who had these procedures had roughly the same number of throat infections as kids who didn’t get their tonsils taken out, one of the studies in Pediatrics found. “Tonsillectomy, while very common and generally safe, is not completely without risk,” said …
Arianna Huffington Writes, Performs “Goodnight Smartphone” for Audible
Published on January 18, 2017 | SleepReviewMag.com Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, has released of the audiobook “Goodnight Smartphone,” a soothing and playful adaptation of childhood classics including Margaret Wise Brown’s beloved children’s story “Goodnight Moon” for the digital age, written and performed exclusively for Audible by author, columnist, and Thrive Global founder and CEO Arianna Huffington. This production is now available for free download at audible.com/goodnight. The audiobook includes an original score and a new introduction, also written and performed by Huffington, about her own nightly sleep regimen, why this story is so important to her, and …
1 in 5 Young People Lose Sleep Over Social Media
Published on January 18, 2017 | SleepReviewMag.com One in five young people regularly wake up in the night to send or check messages on social media. This is according to research published in the Journal of Youth Studies. This night-time activity is making teenagers three times more likely to feel constantly tired at school than their peers who do not log on at night, and could be affecting their happiness and wellbeing. Over 900 pupils, aged between 12-15 years, were recruited and asked to complete a questionnaire about how often they woke up at night to use social media and …
Studies About Later School Start Times May Be ‘Weak,’ But Move Likely Would Help Teens Sleep Better
DEC 27, 2016 @ 09:57 AM | Rita Rubin , CONTRIBUTOR If you have teenagers in your house like I do, you probably haven’t seen much of them before noon during winter break. That’s because they’re luxuriating in the freedom to sleep past dawn. “It has been increasingly recognized that high school students get less sleep than is recommended,” write the authors of a review article in the current issue of the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine. No duh! They have to get up so darn early these days. Anecdotal information suggests high schools start earlier than they did back …
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