quiero compartir con vosotras un artículo publicado en una revista médica. se trata de un estudio randomizado (es decir, en el cual la posibilidad de que los resultados se deban a la casualidad es la mínima) en el cual se analizó el sueño de bebés, tras administra a unos cereales por la noche y a otros no. buscaban la posibilidad de que los niños a los que se les daba cereal durmieran un periodo de 8 horas seguidas. no fue así. no hubo diferencias entre un grupo y otro. corrigieron las expectativas, poniendo un periodo de 6 horas de sueño, y tampoco hubo diferencias.
o sea: DAR CEREALES POR LA NOCHE NO CONSIGUIÓ AUMENTAR LA LONGITUD DEL PERIODO DE SUEÑO.
copio el original en ingles (solo el resumen)
Am J Dis Child. 1989 Sep;143(9):1066-8. Links
Infant sleep and bedtime cereal.Macknin ML, Medendorp SV, Maier MC.
Department of Pediatrics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195-5045.
We studied whether feeding infants rice cereal before bedtime promotes their sleeping through the night. One hundred six infants were randomly assigned to begin bedtime cereal feeding (1 tablespoon per ounce in a bottle) at 5 weeks or at 4 months of age. Caretakers recorded the infant's sleep from age 4 to 21 weeks for one 24-hour period per week. Sleeping through the night was defined as sleeping at least 8 consecutive hours, with the majority of time being between the hours of midnight and 6 AM. The results were also reviewed changing the requirement from 8 hours to 6 hours. There was no statistically significant trend or a consistent tendency of one group to have a higher proportion of sleepers than the other. Therefore, feeding infants rice cereal in the bottle before bedtime does not appear to make much difference in their sleeping through the night.