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Co-sleeping and neonatal weight loss.

P R Fischer1, Y Dind

  • 1Evangelical Medical Centre, Nyankunde, Zaire.

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics
|January 1, 1991
PubMed
Summary

Co-sleeping, or bed-sharing, does not significantly impact newborn weight loss or the time to regain birth weight. This study found no major differences between babies sleeping in cribs versus those co-sleeping with their mothers in rural Africa.

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Area of Science:

  • Neonatal care
  • Maternal-infant health
  • Pediatrics

Background:

  • Neonatal weight change varies across populations.
  • Co-sleeping (mother-baby bed-sharing) is hypothesized to influence neonatal weight changes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between sleeping location (co-sleeping vs. crib) and neonatal weight change in a rural African setting.

Main Methods:

  • A study involving 203 mother-baby pairs in rural central Africa.
  • Comparison of weight loss and time to regain birth weight between babies in cribs and those co-sleeping with mothers.

Main Results:

  • No significant difference in the percentage of neonatal weight loss between groups (6.3% for both).
  • Similar time to regain birth weight for both groups (5.3 days for crib-cared babies, 5.4 days for co-sleepers).

Conclusions:

  • Co-sleeping does not appear to be a major factor influencing neonatal weight change.
  • Sleeping location has a negligible effect on infant weight recovery in this population.

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