Who Sleeps by Whom? Parent-Child Involvement in Urban Japanese Families^†

Infant Arousals During Mother-Infant Bed Sharing: Implications for Infant Sleep and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Research

“…Further epidemiologic studies that additionally control for potentially important factors that could affect how bed sharing impacts infants ultimately will be needed to define in what contexts bed sharing (or room sharing) might be benefical or detrimental to infants with regard to SIDS risk. Such factors include the relationship of the bed partner to the infant, cultural differences in attitudes toward bed sharing with infants, 38,61 individual differences in reasons for bed sharing, differences in parental attitudes about responding to and physical contact with the infant during the day as well as at night, 62 and the type of surface used for bed sharing.…”

Reasons to bed-share: Why parents sleep with their infants

“…Ethnographic studies of non-westernised cultures reveal a wide array of practices that can be loosely defined as "bed-sharing" (Caudill and Plath 1966;Barry and Paxson 1971;Lee 1992;Morelli, Rogoff et al 1992;Nelson and Chan 1996;McKenna 2000). In most non-western cultures mother-infant contact sleeping is the norm (Barry and Paxson 1971), as it is in many minority ethnic subgroups in Euro-American countries e.g.…”

Coleito no primeiro semestre de vida: prevalência e fatores associados

“…Uma pesquisa realizada no Japão, na década de 60, mostrou que aos 15 anos de idade uma criança daquele país tinha 50% de possibilidade de dormir com um ou ambos os pais 29 .…”