PSYCH 3400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Working Parent, Infant Mortality, Almost Surely
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Kids spend a lot of their time early on sleeping. Auto simulation: since infants are spending most of their time in sleep, they need something to continue to stimulate the vision. This is because they need to practice vision/eye movement: the rapid eye movement is what does this. 24-hour sleep (how it is broken up overall: fussing, crying. Other 2/3rds: non-alert awake, drowsiness, sleep-wake transition, quiet sleep, active sleep. Overall: spending a lot of time sleeping, within sleep, spending a lot of time in rem sleep. Having a child and parent share a bed. Very much a cultural thing: parents in japan are very for this idea (focused on the connection) The unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant, often while sleeping, during the first year of life. Risks: mothers who smoked while pregnant, being inadvertently smothered. Co-sleeping can be considered a risk factor.
