Our society puts way too much pressure on parents in this regard and completely discounts information on
what normal infant sleep is.
A more natural, intuitive approach to settling your child, Sleeping Like a Baby will help you
understand normal infant sleep at each stage of development, from birth to three years.
There is an incredible disconnect between mainstream medical notions
of normal infant sleep and sleep advice for parents.
I hope that some of this information eases some of the common worries regarding, and provides a clearer picture of,
normal infant sleep patterns.
At the clinic, we aim to identify and treat medical causes of infant crying,
discuss normal infant sleep and crying patterns, offer parents management strategies to encourage infant settling, help parents to better cope with infant crying, mobilise support for parents and screen for postnatal depression.
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Normal infant sleep patterns - Myths vs realities - Ensuring safe sleep - Schedules - Calming techniques - Tricky times & sweet spots - Healthy family balance
If you are keen to pursue some more evidence - based reading in the areas
of normal infant sleep and gentle practices, cosleeping, and breastfeeding, then please also check out the Evolutionary Parenting Blog, Pinky McKay and Elizabeth Pantley for starters.
And as I did research on infant sleep, I learned about
what normal infant sleep is and I also learned more about the reasons why the CIO method is harmful.
1145 — 1245 What is «
normal infant sleep» really and why does it matter?
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.
• Parental Decisions about Infant Sleep • What is
normal infant sleep?
Ray, Funny you should mention that as
the Normal Infant Sleep post Part 2 I just posted this week cites that very research
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.
Involving Parents in Decisions about Infant Sleep What is
normal infant sleep?
If your baby is not sleeping thru the night and you are at your wits end, I recommend you read up on
normal infant sleep.
McKenna, J. J., Ball, H. L., Gettler, L. T. 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.
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.