A Factor Analysis of Infants' Crying At Night (II)

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  • Narita Eiko
    Department of Nursing, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University.
  • Minakami Akiko
    Department of Nursing, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University.
  • Sakae Shoko
    Department of Nursing, Faculty of Education, Kumamoto University.

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  • 乳児夜泣きの要因分析（Ⅱ）

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This is the second report of our study on the infants who wake and cry at night. Characteristics of seven-Month-old infants related to night crying were examined. Among the 821 infants, 89 were found to cry at night. These 89 infants were divided into two groups: a group of infants who had shown, for a long time, a tendency of crying bitterly at night (Group A) and the other of those who had shown a tendency of crying for a long time, but not bitterly (Group B).<br>Some characteristic factors common to the two groups were that the babies twitched at a slight noise around them when they had just fallen asleep, they had the medical history of eczema, they were in the habit of being fed at night, their mothers lay on the bed with them till they fell asleep, they were excessively dandled by the people around them, they did not sufficiently bathe in the sun, their mothers were nervous about them, etc. Striking factors of Group A babies were that they had the medical history of diarrhea and fever and that they were fed at a late hour or irregularly. Those of Group B were that they had been fed at night from birth and that weaning was not well under way.

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