A number of people have mentioned James McKenna's work, and Michelle has pointed us to his Mother-and-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory home page already.  If I may be so specific, I would like to recommend reading, in addition to "Guidelines to Sleeping Safe with Infants" on the Frequently Asked Questions page, the article "Cultural Influences on Infant Sleep", a very interesting and well-referenced article on the subject, previously published as a chapter in the book "Sleep and Breathing In Children: A Developmental Approach": http://www.nd.edu/~alfac/mckenna/culture.html

(You might want to print it out due to its length.)

Barb Strange

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