Co-Sleeping Articles

ARTICLES SUPPORTING CO-SLEEPING

JAMES J. MCKENNA

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 Contemporary Paediatrics 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

8. Breastfeeding & Bedsharing Still Useful (and Important) after All These Years

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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?"

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. Where Should Babies Sleep at Night?: A Review of the Evidence from the CESDI SUDI Study
7. Solitary or Shared Sleep: What's Safe?
8. Sleep Environment Safety Checklist
9. How the Stats Really Stack Up: Cosleeping Is Twice As Safe
10. The Complexity of Parent-Child Cosleeping: Researching Cultural Beliefs
11. The New Zealand Experience: How Smoking Affects SIDS Rates
12. Bedsharing among Maoris: An Indigenous Tradition
13. Rooming-in at the Hospital: Assessing the Practical Considerations
14. Sleeping Like a Baby: How Bedsharing Soothes Infants
15. Not Designed to Sleep Alone
16. Bedsharing Research in Britain
17. The Family Bed: It's Safe and Here's Why
18. Three in a Bed
19. Sleep with Me: A Trans-cultural Look at the Power--and Protection--of Sharing a Bed
20. Sleep, Beautiful, Sleep: You, too, Can Take a Nap
21. Pillow Talk: Helping your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep 

More articles

The Family Bed – Kellymom.com

Co-sleeping as a window into Swedish culture: considerations of gender and health care. – Pubmed.gov

SLEEPING SAFELY WITH YOUR BABY – ASK DR SEARS

Lower your baby's risk of stress disorders, SID and more by Jennifer Cobrun courtesy of The Compleat Mother

Co-Sleeping vs. Crib Fact & SIDS; Statistic Sheet TheBabyBond.com

Relationship between bed sharing and breastfeeding: Longitudinal, population-based analysis