Read When: People are Telling you Co-Sleeping is Dangerous
When people are sending you article after article about babies who die while co-sleeping, because “I’m really worried about you, what you’re doing is dangerous” Here’s some reassurance for you, and some homework for them.
What Every Health Professional Should Know Dr James McKenna University of Notre-Dame Mother Baby Sleep Laboratory
Cosleeping and SIDS a guide for health professionals UNICEF
Cosleeping Lullaby Trust
Where Babies Sleep - Parents Bed BASIS
New Study Says Bedsharing Risks Overemphasized, Current AAP Recommendations Potentially Dangerous Melanie Mayo-Laakso
HARVARD RESEARCHERS EXPLAIN WHY OUR CULTURE NEEDS CO-SLEEPING Anisa Arsenault The Bump
Is Sleeping with your baby as dangerous as doctors say? Katie Daugert NPR
Bedsharing Infant Sleep and SIDS - Research Roundup UNICEF
Updated guidelines on infant sleep highlight danger of parents’ tiredness Alice Callahan The Washington Post
Where might my Baby Sleep? BASIS
Co-Sleeping: Yes, No, Sometimes? Dr Sears
Safer Sleep Tool British Columbia Perinatal Services www.perinatalservicesbc.ca
James McKenna Library
Bed Sharing and Co-Sleeping Research Overview Prof Helen Ball - Durham University
The below articles are all by Dr Tracy Cassels at Evolutionary Parenting, who specialises in critically analysing parenting research and media claims.
Bedsharing Risks and Realities
New AAP Sleep Guidelines: Same Old Line or Something New?
Safe Sleep: Is Fear Mongering Taking Over Common Sense?
Co-Sleeping is Bad for Mom? Not So Fast…
Co-Sleeping on Trial: The Vanessa Clark Case
“No Bedsharing Under Four Months of Age”: The AAP Evidence
Why the Conflicting Results on Bedsharing Risk?
Bedsharing: Risks and Realities
Bedsharing and Formula Feeding
Plan for “Record-Setting Bedsharing Deaths”? Same Old Thing (And It Doesn’t Work)
Does Bedsharing Increase the Risk of Death for Younger Infants?
Bedsharing on the Rise. Everyone Panics