All About Baby Sleep
Hard to understand your baby’s sleep ? – – – or lack of it? Confused about advice from the “experts”. Worried if your baby is normal or . . . if you are a good parent?
Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone: http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/12/21/cosleeping-and-biological-imperatives-why-human-babies-do-not-and-should-not-sleep-alone/
Myths and Facts About Night Wakings
http://evolutionaryparenting.com/myths-and-facts-about-night-wakings/
If your baby is waking more at night; read this excellent article by Jan Barger RN, IBCLC
http://www.phdinparenting.com/blog/2009/2/28/gentle-baby-and-toddler-sleep-tips.html
Sleeping with baby or let then cry it out?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M308jA_dDfY
Dr. Sears on Cry it out Technique
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8ZsW8_As_g
Does Sleep Training Work?
http://www.parenting-with-love.com/sleep-training-torturing-baby/
Getting To Know Your Baby
A wonderful 16 minute video by Dr. Jane Morton. you will learn how babies communicate and why babies do what they do — wake so frequently, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX2ijdLnIJU
Sleep Training: A Review of Research
The following is a list of resources (articles/websites/books) for research-based information on infant sleep, night time parenting, baby crying, need for nourishment and comfort at night, and physiological body and brain responses to ‘controlled crying,’ ‘cry it out,’ or ‘sleep training’ methods. Also see psychological conditioning studies on learned helplessness (which occurs to babies whose care-givers utilize these methods).
http://www.drmomma.org/2009/12/sleep-training-review-of-research.html
Keep following your gut instincts!
“Babies need to be with their mothers following birth in order to develop proper neural connections and ensure healthy brain development and proper brain ‘organization’; mother’s chest is baby’s natural post-birth ‘habitat,’ and is of vital developmental and survival significance; and that breastfeeding equals brain wiring.” –Dr. Nils Bergman summarized by Molly Remer, M.S.W., ICCE, CCCE
http://pathwaystofamilywellness.org/The-Outer-Womb/breastfeeding-as-an-ecofeminist-issue.html
Sleep Concerns
Dr. Sears addresses recent co-sleeping concerns
http://www.askdrsears.com/news/latest-news/dr-sears-addresses-recent-co-sleeping-concerns
Uppity Scienc Chick–With an Attitude’s–Sleep page
Read this fact -filled page and see the video on how to sleep safely with your baby.
What Happened to Ethics in Pediatric Medicine?
Is Pediatric Medicine Failing Children?
Researchers may have found a cause for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
http://fox2now.com/2014/01/23/researchers-may-have-found-a-cause-for-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/
INFANT SWADDLING DELAYS BREASTFEEDING AND MAY BE LINKED TO SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME http://birthofanewearth.blogspot.com/2011/11/infant-swaddling-delays-breastfeeding.html
Elizabeth Pantly and “The No-Cry Sleep Solution” books http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKE7bF9s-Lw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKE7bF9s-Lw
Co-Sleeping Safety Tips from Elizabeth Pantley – http://elizabethpantley.com/co-sleeping-safety-tips/
Infant Bed-Sharing Death Cautions Misdirected
http://guardianlv.com/2014/02/infant-bed-sharing-death-cautions-misdirected/
Baby Sleep Research
New White Paper from Praeclarus Press Finds That Many Behaviors Labeled as “Infant Sleep Problems” Are Actually Normal Patterns of Infant and Child Sleep
Many new parents worry that their babies have “sleep problems” if they wake frequently, fall asleep while breastfeeding, stay up late, or only sleep while being held. A new white paper from Praeclarus Press finds that many of the behaviors labeled as problems are actually normal, which can reassure new parents.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/8/prweb11056827.htm
New recommendations in bedsharing debate
“Associate Professor Catherine Fetherston said Australian and overseas agencies’ warnings against bedsharing were not well supported by evidence and did not meet the needs of mothers and babies. “Current policies are focussed on risk elimination – ‘do not sleep with your baby, because they might die’ – when really there is no research that shows an inherent risk for bedsharing and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),” Professor Fetherston said. “What we should be focusing on is minimising the known risks associated with SIDS and bedsharing, such as parents who smoke or are affected by alcohol and drugs.”
Read more at: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-04-bedsharing-debate.html#jCp
Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone: http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/12/21/cosleeping-and-biological-imperatives-why-human-babies-do-not-and-should-not-sleep-alone/
Researchers may have found a cause for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
http://fox2now.com/2014/01/23/researchers-may-have-found-a-cause-for-sudden-infant-death-syndrome/
Dr. James McKenna
Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame University
http://cosleeping.nd.edu/
A great sleeping with your baby resource!
Videos: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/videos.html
Articles and Essays: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/articles.html
Safe co-sleeping: http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/safe.html
“Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone”— Very informative article. Did you know: In Japan where co-sleeping and breastfeeding (in the absence of maternal smoking) is the cultural norm, rates of the sudden infant death syndrome are the lowest in the world. For breastfeeding mothers, bedsharing makes breastfeeding much easier to manage and practically doubles the amount of breastfeeding sessions while permitting both mothers and infants to spend more time asleep.
BUT–you must know how to practice SAFE co-sleeping
Baby Sleep Resources and Book
Elizabeth Pantley
http://www.elizabethpantley.com
Elizabeth Pantley is the author of eight popular parenting books, available in 18 languages, and she was a contributing author to The Successful Child with Dr. William and Martha Sears. Best Start carries all of her sleep books because they use the gentle parenting methods instead of the “cry it out” methods. Visit her website for more parenting articles that she has written on the web.