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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study is to determine the effects of 0-1 month-old newborn babies’ post-feeding sleep positions on sleep duration. This descriptive and analytic study was done at a private hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. METHODS: 198 pairs of mothers and babies from the maternity ward and pediatric polyclinic of a private Turkish hospital participated in this study between November 2008 and November 2009. The newborns included in the study were healthy, breastfed babies having birth weights between 2500 and 3500 grams. The data were obtained by an observation form, a pre-training interview form and a post-training interview form, all of which had been improved by the researchers based on expert opinion in the literature. The socio-demographic characteristics of the mothers and babies, the descriptive data about recumbent positions, and the average, standard deviation, and frequency between sleep duration and recumbent positions were analyzed. This assessment was done with the one-way ANOVA test and chi-square. RESULTS: All of the babies were breastfed and 19.7% (n=39) were fed when they cried. Observation of the babies over a 24 hour period showed that most of the babies slept on their side positions (34.2%, n=149 on right side; 31.5%, n=137 on left side). CONCLUSION: There is no statistically significant relationship between babies’ post-feeding sleep position and sleep duration, daytime or nighttime, (p>; 0.05) in this study.

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