A very helpful article by Helen Ball on bedsharing and breastfeeding, from Breastfeeding Today .
She examines how babies sleep – which is very differently to an adult, and how the western view of babies and sleep has been shaped by babies sleeping alone. Then moves on to the relationship between bed-sharing and breastfeeding. Helen Ball looks at the research on risk of bedsharing and highlights how the risks relate to individual circumstance and sums up with guidelines on how to bed-share safely.
The issue’s theme is sharing sleep, and another contributor Dr James McKenna is always worth a read.
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