Sleep represents an emergent set of many physiologic processes under primarily
neurobiological regulation that impact many physiologic systems. As such, many advances …

Sleep represents a set of biological functions necessary for the maintenance of life.
Performing these functions, though, requires that an individual engage in behaviors, which …

The practice of parent and child sharing a sleeping surface, or 'bed-sharing', is one of the
most controversial topics in parenting research. The lay literature has popularized and …

Background: Expectations for infant sleep development and for the appropriate degree of
parental proximity for infant sleep are culturally weighted and historically shifting aspects of …

Mother–infant bed-sharing has been a common practice for centuries. Understanding the
reasons parents choose to bed-share can help tailor safe sleep education. The purpose of …

Sleep-related infant deaths remain a major public health issue. Multiple interventions have
been implemented in efforts to increase adherence to safe sleep recommendations. We …

The pros and cons of parent-infant bed-sharing have been hotly debated in both the
academic and professional literature concerning infant health and early parenting. Much of …

This review aimed to better understand the underlying physiology of the risks and benefits of
bed-sharing. Eight databases were searched using terms relating to adult–infant/baby, bed …

Objectives We examine infant sleep from evolutionary, historico‐cultural, and statistical/
epidemiological perspectives and explore the distinct conceptions of “normal” produced by …

This article provides a novel synthesis of anthropological research on infant sleep, focusing
on work in biological and sociocultural anthropology in the past decade. First, we briefly …