PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - J Eaton-Evans AU - A E Dugdale TI - Sleep patterns of infants in the first year of life. AID - 10.1136/adc.63.6.647 DP - 1988 Jun 01 TA - Archives of Disease in Childhood PG - 647--649 VI - 63 IP - 6 4099 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/63/6/647.short 4100 - http://adc.bmj.com/content/63/6/647.full SO - Arch Dis Child1988 Jun 01; 63 AB - A prospective study of 132 infants aged from 1 month to 1 year found that infants who were breast fed or breast plus bottle fed were significantly more likely to wake at night throughout the first year. Social class of the family, parity of the mother, and the weight gain of the infant had no consistent effects. This increased waking was not due to mothers of wakeful infants prolonging breast feeding to soothe their infants.