AIMS To investigate the characteristics of parent-infant bed-sharing prevalence in England. METHODS Data on night-time sleeping practices from a two year, local, longitudinal study and a three-year, national, cross-sectional study were obtained. A total of 261 infants in North Tees were followed up at 1 and 3 months of age, as were 1095 infants aged 1 week to 1 year from five English health r...

An evolutionarily informed perspective on parent-infant sleep contact challenges recommendations regarding appropriate parent-infant sleep practices based on large epidemiological studies. In this study regularly bed-sharing parents and infants participated in an in-home video study of bed-sharing behaviour. Ten formula-feeding and ten breastfeeding families were filmed for 3 nights (adjustment...

OBJECTIVE We examined the predictors and consequences of mother-child bed-sharing at 1, 2, and 3 years of age in a racially/ethnically and geographically diverse sample of low-income families across the United States. METHODS We analyzed data from 944 low-income families who had children assessed at 1, 2, 3, and 5 years of age. RESULTS Mothers who were Hispanic and black were more likely to...

Objective: Bed-sharing is associated with sudden infant death syndrome and accidental suffocation and strangulation in bed. The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for newborn bed-sharing. Methods: Postpartum mothers from a university maternity service were contacted by phone to complete a survey. Demographic and environmental data were collected; newborn bed-sharing and sleep en...

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Household crowding can place young children at risk for respiratory infections which subsequently provoke asthma symptoms. However, crowding might also protect against asthma, in accordance with the hygiene hypothesis. We tested if parent-infant bed-sharing, an important dimension of household crowding, increases or decreases the risk for asthma. In a population-based prospective cohort (N = 61...

RECENT INTEREST IN THE PHYSIOLOGIC AND BEHAVIORAL CORRELATES OF MOTHER-INFANT BED SHARING IS DRIVEN, IN PART, BY CLAIMS THAT BED SHARING IS A SIGNIFICANT INDEPENDENT RISK FACTOR FOR THE SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (SIDS).1 Furthermore, some form of co-sleeping or bed sharing represents the condition under which infants adapted throughout human evolutionary history.2,3 It seems self-evident tha...