Baby Needs, Parenting Advice, and Cry-It-Out Sleep Training
In this era that prioritizes work over family, sleep training babies is often encouraged by authors and bloggers, and even pediatricians. Is this good advice?…
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Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers To Your Cosleeping Questions, A New…
An Excerpt from the New Book by James McKenna, PhD
About the book
In Safe Infant Sleep, the world’s authority on cosleeping breaks down…
AAP’s New Sleep Recommendations Aren’t For Real Babies
The American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) guide to sleep gives professional recommendations on how parents can “help baby develop healthy sleep habits during…
Flawed Sleep-Training Study Makes Invalid Claims In the News
A flawed Australian study recently made national news. The researchers made extreme and exaggerated claims regarding infants. The researchers claimed two…
6 Hidden Myths Behind Baby Sleep Training Advocacy
Beware the biases against babies.
KEY POINTS
Studies have shown that babies are not “fine” when they stop crying.Babies expect constant caregiver…
Child Sleep Training’s “Best Review of Research”
Sleep studies are multiply flawed plus miss examining child wellbeing.
First author is Mary Phillips
A proliferation of “Sleep Clinics” are charging…
“Cosleeping: Science, History, Public Policy and Parents’…
Co-Sleeping - The Full 18 Minute Interview with James McKenna, PhD from Kindred Magazine on Vimeo.
What is Co-Sleeping? Defining the Term for Parents,…
Kindred’s Interview Series With James McKenna, PhD, On Infant…
Cosleeping: Science, History, Public Policy And Parents' Civil Rights, With James McKenna, PhD
https://youtu.be/fgNBFR4fQXU
In an interview with Lisa…
Normal, Human Infant Sleep: Changing Patterns
"My child wakes every hour to feed."
Infant sleep problems represent some of the most common concerns reported by parents of young children. Ask any new…
The Dangers of “Crying It Out”’
Damaging children and their relationships for the longterm.
*See note on basic assumptions below.
Letting babies “cry it out” is an idea that has been around…