One hundred seventy-five mothers of infants between the ages of 3 and 36 months participated in this study. Infants were grouped based on sleeping arrangements; solitary sleepers, exclusive co-sleepers, and reactive co-sleepers. These groups were compared using their mothers' reports of maternal ...
In a cross-cultural approach to understanding families through evolutionary time, Keller (2007) identified universals in human parenting that include parenting functions every human family caring for infants must perform. Among these are primary care, body contact, and body stimulation, each of which ...
she did sleep in the room with me until 4 months. SIDS concerns me as I know a mother who lost her child to it at 6 weeks so I personally feel baby is safer in my room, but in her own sleep space. I’m looking into getting one of the bedside co sleepers you mentioned for the...
There is a need for a relatively inexpensive, co-sleeper for infants and/or pets which can easily be connected to an individual's bed without the use of ground contacting legs (which take up valuable floor space and create undesired obstacles with respect to access under the bed, hinder vacu...
Research shows a benefit of co-sleeping is infants virtually never startle during sleep and rarely cry during the night, compared to solo sleepers who startle repeatedly throughout the night and spend 4 times the number of minutes crying1. Startling and crying releases adrenaline, which increases ...
sleepers (P = .008). The longest stretch for early independent sleepers was 100 and 45 minutes more than room-sharers and later independent sleepers, respectively (P = .01). At 30 months, infants sleeping independently by 9 months slept >45 more minutes nightly than those room-sharing a...
likelihood of the human transitioning from a non-moving state to a moving state. Nevertheless, humans rarely reported that their dog disrupted their sleep. We encourage the continued exploration of human-animal co-sleeping in all its facets and provide recommendations for future research in this ...
Sleep-sharing infants aroused more often and spent more time breastfeeding than solitary sleepers, yet the sleep-sharing mothers did not report awakening more frequently. Sleep-sharing infants tended to sleep more often on their backs or sides and less often on their tummies, a factor that could...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission is issuing this final rule to codify in its regulations the ban of inclined sleepers for infants pursuant to the Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2021, which requires that inclined sleepers for infants, regardless of the U.S. CPSC Bans Use of Crib Bumpers...
And I’m lucky: none of my kids are real flailers or starfish sleepers. How do you keep the little guys from rolling off the bed? We have a Tres Tria pillow on either side of the bed. You put it underneath the fitted sheet. That’s one of my top baby purchases I ever got. ...