> > >Sometimes I add somewhere in the 6 >week class series that I don't think people were meant to sleep 8 hours >at a stretch. That's just not the way we're designed. I haven't done >the research to see if there is any formal research to back up that >statement, it just strikes me as being true. Can anyone familiar with >sleep research point me to some articles about this? > Yes, and please post the references here! Any anthropologists doing cross-cultural studies of sleep? My dh is available for interviews. LOL In the last few days, while our house has been full, I've been aware of the range of "natural" patterns. And I was just suggesting to my niece, who is a clinical psychologist (her husband is an experimental psychologist) that it seems that babies do a lot of their developmental growth at night -- her one-year-old is now "under observation" to see if he will stop screaming several times at night when he learns to walk, and perhaps there will be new studies coming out of this!I have no doubt that newborns do most of their latch-learning between 12 p.m. and 5 a.m. :-) Happy Holidays to Lactnetters. Jo-Anne Elder-Gomes *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html