[Sleep onset in infants under continuous feeding from birth: 24 hour recordings (author's transl)].

The distribution in the 24 h period and the electrophysiological patterns of sleep onset have been studied in 18 infants fed continuously from birth to the age of between 1 month 2 weeks and 8 months 2 weeks. Continuous feeding modified neither the number nor the distribution of sleep onsets in the 24 h period. However, some differences with a control group did occur. The number of quiet sleep onsets in younger infants and of paradoxical sleep onsets in older infants were increased in continuously fed infants. In addition, the pattern of sleep onset in continuously fed infants bore no relation to the duration of the waking period preceding it, in contrast to the control group.