Western sleep practices may be poorly matched to the needs of some kids and adults (Jenni and O'Connor 2005).
But whether you accept or reject
Western sleep practices, there is much you can do to minimize sleep problems during infancy.
Not exact matches
However, the
Western child rearing
practices of having babies
sleep in separate -LSB-...]
Halifax Luanne Bruneau Baby
Sleep Right www.babysleepright.com 902-225-4111 Education: Master of Science, Genetics & Immunology, University of
Western Ontario Bachelor of Science, Genetics, University of
Western Ontario Council for Continuing Pharmaceutical Education — Basic Accreditation & Dermatology Certified Child
Sleep Consultant — The Family
Sleep Institute
Practicing as a CSC: since 2013
Aurora Jenn Kelner BabyZzz 647-970-2402 www.baby-zzz.com Education: CPA, CA, Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants HBA,
Western University Certified Child
Sleep Consultant — The Family
Sleep Institute
Practicing as a CSC: since 2012
Normal Carianna Gibb All The
Sleeps (815) 421-3240 www.allthesleeps.com Education: Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology Master of Science in Exercise Physiology * Both from
Western Illinois University
Practicing as a CSC: since 2018
Cosleeping, also known as «sharing
sleep» or having a «family bed,» is a parenting
practice that still smacks of taboo in our
Western culture.
In part, these bedtime battles may be caused by the
practice of solitary
sleeping — a
Western custom that may trigger separation anxiety in young children.
Western infant
sleep practices depart widely from normative biological experiences that has had deleterious consequences.
Certified as a pediatric
sleep specialist, parent educator, instructor and coach, Shawnee blends Eastern and
Western practices to support families through holistic
sleep solutions.
Culturally there is a lot of disapproval for the
practice of co
sleeping or bed sharing among
western or industrialized societies, to the extent that there is a significant proportion of parents who co
sleep but do not admit to it.
It's important to note that infant solitary
sleep is a relatively new
practice that has evolved in the
western world only within the last 100 years.
For most mothers in contemporary
Western societies, breastfeeding and infant
sleeping arrangements are two distinct parenting
practices with little or no relation to one another.
The first indication that infant care
practices could promote or reduce infant deaths came in the 1990s when it was discovered that merely placing an infant in the prone rather than supine position tripled an infant's chances of dying.20 Insights from epidemiological studies from England and New Zealand led to national and international «back to
sleep» campaigns in almost all
western industrialized countries.
We describe here how the
western dismantling of three fundamental evolved maternal nighttime infant caregiving
practices, specifically, how to lay your baby down to
sleep, how to feed your baby, and where to locate your baby for
sleep, created the conditions that favored and fostered the emergence within
western industrialized cultures of SIDS.