Associations between infant feeding and infant/maternal sleep: Maternal perceptions and subjective measures in a mixed qualitative/quantitative research study

摘要

Maternal decisions about how to feed an infant are often closely tied to maternal and societal perceptions regarding the influence of feeding method on infant sleep, and thus on maternal sleep (Marchand and Morrow 1994; Ball 2003). Two complementary pieces of research conducted among mothers in the North East of England that investigated issues of infant feeding and sleep using qualitative and quantitative methods are presented.