Baby On Board
| Chapter 12: Sleeping with your baby: myths and truths |
Research done in the early 1990s by a team led by Professor James McKenna - who is, significantly, an anthropologist, not a paediatrician - has opened up the whole question about the advisability of sleeping with your baby and this work is worth examining in some detail.
The evolution of closeness
- 'Overlaying'
- Foundling hospitals
- The Industrial Revolution
Closeness today
- The fortress nursery
- Rooming in
- The final barrier
Do you want to bed-share?
- Check out your sleeping arrangements
- A cot next to the bed
- If you want to bed-share, do so, but stick to the rules
- When to stop
Chapter 13: Settling in at home
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