A different approach to sleep problems of infancy: swaddling above the waist
Cağlayan, S.; Yaprak, I.; Seçkin, E.; Kansoy, S.; Aydinlioğlu, H.
Turkish Journal of Pediatrics 33(2): 117-120
1991
ISSN/ISBN: 0041-4301 PMID: 1844180 Document Number: 375813
Daytime sleep and wake periods of ten swaddled infants were periodically recorded by their mothers. The babies were swaddled above the waist for the first four days of the second, third and fourth months of life. During the next four days of the same months, the same infants were monitored with no swaddling. Comparison of the two sleep situations (swaddled and unswaddled) demonstrated that the increase in the total daytime sleep was statistically significant when the baby was loosely swaddled above the waist.