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Archives of Disease in Childhood 1990;65:135-137; doi:10.1136/adc.65.1.135
Copyright © 1990 BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.

White noise and sleep induction.

J A Spencer, D J Moran, A Lee and D Talbert

Institute of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London.

We studied two groups of 20 neonates, between 2 and 7 days old, in a randomised trial. Sixteen (80%) fell asleep within five minutes in response to white noise compared with only five (25%) who fell asleep spontaneously in the control group. White noise may help mothers settle difficult babies.


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