Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping Sleeping with your baby has been the norm for almost all cultures for almost all ages. Yet, in our modern world, the practice is fraught with questions and guilt. With organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) stating that a child should never sleep in an adult bed, parents who cherish the closeness, security, and warmth of cosleeping are finding their hearts at odds with their brains.
In Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, a world-wide recognized cosleeping authority examines why simplistic recommendations against any and all forms of cosleeping are not only scientifically inappropriate, but dangerous and morally wrong. Walking readers through various ways to safely cosleep, whether bedsharing or not, this book provides the latest information on the potential scientific benefits of cosleeping. Complete with sections minimizing hazards and risks, this book explains why and how to sleep with your baby.
James J. McKenna, Author, Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide
Professor James J. McKenna, Ph.D. is the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce CSC Chair in Anthropology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. He also directs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University. He has published extensively on infant sleep, breastfeeding, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and the evolution of human behavior with special emphasis on the differences between the behavior and physiology of solitary and co-sleeping-breastfeeding mother-baby pairs. His interests include how cultural factors influence infant and childcare practices, which in turn, affect maternal-infant health and well-being. The National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development fund his research. Currently, he is involved in a multi-site USA national prospective project examining first-time teen moms throughout their pregnancies and throughout the first three years of their infants' lives. His articles have appeared in refereed periodicals and academic journals around the world, and he is considered one of the leading authorities on scientific studies of infant-parent co-sleeping and breastfeeding, especially bed-sharing, having been the first to study the practice.
"Cosleeping is one of the most delicious experiences in parenting, and Dr. McKenna's carefully research and thoughtful advice separates the myths from the marvelous reality." - Harvey Karp, M.D. "Should be required reading for everyone who cares for mothers and infants!" - Peter J. Fleming, M.D., Ph.D.
Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping
James J. McKenna, Ph.D.
Preface by Meredith Small, Ph.D.
Foreword by Peter Fleming, M.D., Ph.D.
Introduction by William Sears, M.D.
ISBN: 978-1-930775-34-3
Paperback
160 pages
5.5 x 8.5
$14.95 (discounts available for bulk purchases)