McKenna JJ, Ball HL, Gettler LT. Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered
about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine.
[4] McKenna JJ, Ball HL, & Gettler LT. Mother - infant co-sleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: What biological anthropology has discovered
about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine.
However, this is not consistent with what we know
about normal infant sleep (http://www.kellymom.com/parenting/sleep/sleep.html).
This is a free online resource providing evidence based information to parents and health care staff
about normal infant sleep.
McKenna JJ et al. (2007) Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered
about normal infant sleep and paediatric sleep medicine.
Mother - Infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and SIDS: What Biological Anthropology Has Discovered
About Normal Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Medicine, by James J. McKenna, Helen Ball and Lee T. Gettler.Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 50:133 - 161.
The Scientific Perspective McKenna, J., Ball H., Gettler L., Mother - infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and SIDS: What Biological Anthropologists Have Learned
About Normal Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Medicine.
Mother - infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: what biological anthropology has discovered
about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine
Not exact matches
Her goal is to help your family learn
about normal newborn behavior, baby care techniques,
infant sleep, postnatal recovery, breast and
infant feeding techniques.
My wife and I were shocked when we read what pediatric
sleep researchers had to say
about normal sleep for human
infants and the idea that
infants must «self - soothe.»
From a biological point of view, one question begs answering: why or how could 40 - 60 % of otherwise healthy
infants have
sleep problems to solve and if this is percentage is anything near the truth then the cultural and or scientific models of
normal healthy
sleep that underlie our cultural ideologies must reflect far more
about adults than they do
about babies.
I find it unfortunate that we do not support mothers with pertinent information
about normal and healthy
infant sleep or ways to cope with the challenges of nighttime parenting, and limit the discussion to differences in «parenting styles» and within the framework of misguided cultural expectations and beliefs.
Since that time I have educated myself
about infant and toddler
sleep and what is
normal, and have learned that we as parents do not need to (and shouldn't) fight our God - given instincts and intuition.
• Parental Decisions
about Infant Sleep • What is normal infant
Infant Sleep • What is normal infant s
Sleep • What is
normal infant infant sleepsleep?
We receive plenty of phone calls at the Lactation Care office from exhausted,
sleep - deprived parents with questions
about normal infant feeding and
sleeping patterns.
To understand more
about normal, human
infant sleep, please see here.
Involving Parents in Decisions
about Infant Sleep What is normal infant
Infant Sleep What is normal infant s
Sleep What is
normal infant infant sleepsleep?
As a paediatrician who has spent the past 30 years trying to understand both
normal sleep in
infants and children and problems that can arise during such
sleep, I was heartened to read this book, which builds effectively on what we know
about infant sleep and development.
Perhaps we should educate parents
about what
normal infant sleep is and what they can do to gently encourage better
sleep, rather than telling them that night wakings are a problem and they have to use CIO to solve that problem.
Most interventions have included parent education
about normal sleep and
sleep cycles, advice to maximise environmental differences between day and night, and strategies to encourage
infant self - settling.7 - 10 Strategies included range from the graduated extinction method described above to encouraging parents to stretch night time feed intervals (in the hope that the
infant will self - settle) and encouraging the use of parent - independent
sleep cues.
Universal prevention programs providing consistent advice to parents
about normal sleep patterns,
sleep cues, and ways to encourage
infant self - settling (after the first few months) should be widely available.