OBJECTIVE:–To understand parents' motivations for bed sharing with their infants aged 1–6
months, their beliefs about safety concerns, and their attitudes about bed-sharing advice …

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between bedsharing at age 3 months and
breastfeeding (BF) at age 12 months. STUDY DESIGN: Almost all children born in Pelotas …

Aims: To study bed-sharing and cot-sleeping infants in the natural setting of their own home
in order to identify differences in the thermal characteristics of the two sleep situations and …

Sleep-related infant deaths are a leading cause of infant mortality in Georgia, and these
deaths are largely associated with unsafe sleep practices among caregivers. In early 2016 …

This study aimed to understand how different mother-infant sleeping arrangements impact
infants' self-regulation, particularly their calming response. Thus this study investigated the …

BACKGROUND: In this prospective longitudinal study, we investigated the relation between
sleeping arrangements and infant cortisol reactivity to stressors in the first two post-natal …

While the importance of human milk in shaping infant immune function is well established,
the impact of at-the-nipple (ATN) breastfeeding on maternal immune status has been …

Introduction Many parents swaddle their infants to promote sleep and reduce night‐waking,
however lack of definitive evidence about the pros and cons of swaddling when …

Co-sleeping can provide numerous benefits for both the parent (s) and the infant. Perhaps
the greatest advantage lies in its promotion of breastfeeding, an act widely recognized for its …

When considering the nighttime needs of mothers and babies, an anthropological vantage
point provides a unique perspective on “human nature” by employing both phylogenetic …