Articles supporting co-sleeping

ARTICLES SUPPORTING CO-SLEEPING

JAMES J. MCKENNA, Ph.D. Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, C.S.C Chair in Anthropology and Director, Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory

University of Notre Dam

1.     Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding James J. McKenna* and Thomas McDade 2005:

2.     Why we never ask ‘is it safe for infants to sleep alone’ Historical Origins of Scientific Bias in bedsharing SIDS/SUDI ‘Debate’ by James McKenna in the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine and News 2001:

3.     In Defence of Maya’s Mother in Contempary Peadiatircs 2000:

4.     Maternal Sleep and Arousals during Bedsharing with Infants in American Sleep Disorders Association and Sleep Research Society 1997:

5.     Infant-Parent Co-Sleeping in an Evolutionary Perspective: Implications for Understanding Infant Sleep development and the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in American Sleep Disorders Association and Sleep Research Society 1993

6.     RESEARCHING THE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS) The Role of Ideology in Biomedical Science 1991

7.     Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone

Natural Child Project

1.     An Oversight of Our Culture

2.     Babies Need Their Mothers Beside Them

3.     Bedsharing Promotes Breastfeeding

4.     Bedtime Story: Co-sleeping Research

5.     The Con of Controlled Crying

6.     Cosleeping

7.     Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone

8.     Cosleeping Around The World

9.     Is It Time to Abolish Cribs?

10.  Is sleeping with my baby safe? Can it reduce the risk of SIDS?

11.  It's None of Their Business

12.  Need vs. Habit

13.  A Rediscovery

14.  Rethinking "Healthy" Infant Sleep

15.  Should My Baby be Sleeping Through the Night?

16.  Statement on sleeping locations and sudden death in infants

17.  Ten Reasons to Sleep Next to Your Child at Night

18.  When Will My Baby Soothe Himself to Sleep?

19.  Why babies should never sleep alone

20.  Why We Never Ask "Is it Safe for Infants to Sleep Alone?"

Mothering Magazine

1. Shouting For Baby
2. Real Men Sleep With Their Kids
3. Bed of Roses
4. Family Bed Safety
5. Where Oh Where Has Our Sex Life Gone
6. Breastfeeding & Bedsharing Still Useful (and Important) after All These Years
7. Where Should Babies Sleep at Night?: A Review of the Evidence from the CESDI SUDI Study
8. Solitary or Shared Sleep: What's Safe?
9. Sleep Environment Safety Checklist
10. How the Stats Really Stack Up: Cosleeping Is Twice As Safe
11. The Complexity of Parent-Child Cosleeping: Researching Cultural Beliefs
12. The New Zealand Experience: How Smoking Affects SIDS Rates
13. Bedsharing among Maoris: An Indigenous Tradition
14. Rooming-in at the Hospital: Assessing the Practical Considerations
15. Sleeping Like a Baby: How Bedsharing Soothes Infants
16. Not Designed to Sleep Alone
17. Bedsharing Research in Britian
18. The Family Bed: It's Safe and Here's Why
19. Three in a Bed
20. A Foot in Your Face, or Ten Other Reasons to Family Bed
21. Sleep with Me: A Trans-cultural Look at the Power--and Protection--of Sharing a Bed
22. A Maya Spiritual Bath That Heals a Child's Nightmares
23. Sleep, Beautiful, Sleep: You, too, Can Take a Nap
24. Pillow Talk: Helping your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep