Special Event Announcement!
Dr. McKenna invites you to consider registering for a chapter by chapter discussion of his recent book "Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions." Every Sunday throughout October, 6:00 pm US EST. For further details and registration please click here: httsp://lactalearning.com/book-group/safe-infant-sleep
New Book
New book by Dr. McKenna on infant sleep, breastfeeding a new concept called "breastsleeping" and its relationship to maternal and infant health. Here you will find up to date answers to many of your cosleeping questions. More information on the book can be found here: SafeInfantSleepBook.com.
Co-Sleeping With Infants: Science, Public Policy, and Parents Civil Rights, with James McKenna, PhD
Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs—in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.
Using traditional anthropological and medical research techniques, the laboratory cuts through myths and controversies to provide scholars, parents, and the news media with accurate scientific information on a variety of sleeping arrangements, including safe co-sleeping practices. Included in the articles that are available to download are discussions of what constitutes, from a biological perspective, normal, healthy infant sleep. This perspective offers a major corrective to more traditional infant sleep models promulgated in western societies.
Dr. McKenna's complete vita and select vita are available for review, and parents and health professionals may find particularly helpful several video interviews with Dr. McKenna and PowerPoint presentations based on recent lectures both in the U.S. and abroad.
