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Recent Topics
Quick links:
AAP Responses
Video: Interview about AAP Bedsharing Recommendation
Video: Saturday Scholar Series
SRCD Poster
Mothering Magazine Articles
Miscellanea
Comments on the CPSC Mother-Baby Sleeping Recommendations
Bedsharing / Co-Sleeping Articles and Responses to the AAP
New to bedsharing? Start here:
2005 Why Babies Should Never Sleep Alone: A Review of the Cosleeping Controversy
In Relationship To SIDS, Breast Feeding and Bedsharing. Paediatric Respiratory
Reviews 6, 134-152
Read the article (PDF)
- Press Release: Academy of Breast Feeding Medicine (DOC)
- Recommendations for safe sleeping environments for infants and children (PDF)
- Goodnight Nobody? 100 Years of Of Medical Misrepresentations of Healthy Infant Sleep Behavior and Arrangements: Why We Never Asked, Is It Safe For Infants To Sleep Alone (RTF)
- The Benefits of Bedsharing (DOC)
- Press Release: United States Breastfeeding Committee (PDF)
- Infants bed-sharing with mothers (PDF, see page 2)
Other responses to the AAP Recommendation
These links will take you to another site.
- LLLI Media Release on the SIDS policy statement
- US Breastfeeding Committee
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
- Ask Dr. Sears web site
Video Interview
This video was produced in 2005 by the University of Notre Dame. It features an interview with Dr. McKenna responding to the following questions:
- What is cosleeping? IS there is a difference between safe and cosleeping forms of cosleeping?
- Is sleeping with a baby normal and appropriate, given human infant developmental processes and the baby's expectations?
- How many people bedshare in the USA and abroad?
- What is the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation. Is it true that they recommend to cosleep in the form of roomsharing, but not to bedshare?
- What was your role in the process by which the AAP came to their opinion.
- Why do they make an unqualified recommendation against bedsharing?
- Why do you disagree with this recommendation?
- What do you mean when you say that bedsharing outcomes fall on a continuum of outcomes ranging from safe and protective to dangerous?
- To what extent if at all is there a double standard in the manner in which the causes of and remedies for preventing infant deaths, when babies die in cribs vs. adult beds?
- What do you worry will be the negative public health consequences of an unqualified recommendation against bedsharing?
- Do any other credible pediatric institutions or health professionals and organizations support your views? What are the views of WHO, UNICEF, La Leche League International, Breast Feeding section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, and Academy of Breast Feeding Medicine?
Watch the Interview
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Watch the Interview
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Video Lecture
"Caring For Infants, Caring For Parents: What To Believe What To Do As Regards Your Infants Sleep and Feeding" University of Notre Dame Saturday Scholar Series Lecture, October 22, 2005
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Poster 2005
Breastfeeding, Infant Sleep Position, and Nighttime Parenting Behavior Among First-Time Mothers: Implications for Child DevelopmentMothering Magazine Articles
In response to the AAP and Consumer Products Safety Commission unqualified recommendations against bedsharing.
- Breastfeeding & Bedsharing Still Useful (and Important) after All These Years
- Where Should Babies Sleep at Night?: A Review of the Evidence from the CESDI SUDI Study
- Solitary or Shared Sleep: What's Safe?
- Sleep Environment Safety Checklist
- How the Stats Really Stack Up: Cosleeping Is Twice As Safe
- The Complexity of Parent-Child Cosleeping: Researching Cultural Beliefs
- The New Zealand Experience: How Smoking Affects SIDS Rates
- Bedsharing among Maoris: An Indigenous Tradition
- Rooming-in at the Hospital: Assessing the Practical Considerations
- Sleeping Like a Baby: How Bedsharing Soothes Infants
- Not Designed to Sleep Alone
- Bedsharing Research in Britian
- The Family Bed: It's Safe and Here's Why
- Three in a Bed
- A Foot in Your Face, or Ten Other Reasons to Family Bed
- Sleep with Me: A Trans-cultural Look at the Power--and Protection--of Sharing a Bed
- A Maya Spiritual Bath That Heals a Child's Nightmares
- Sleep, Beautiful, Sleep: You, too, Can Take a Nap
- Pillow Talk: Helping your Child Get a Good Night's Sleep
Miscellanea
- Colleague Peter J. Fleming, meeting Queen Elizabeth II of England
- Entertaining video: Mommy Yoga
