The safest place for a young baby to sleep for the first six months of its life is in a cot, rather than the same bed as their parents. Whilst this remains the advice from the NHS, its guidance has ...

Parents of infants know that some of the most common questions they field from friends and family are about one thing: their babies’ sleep. “Is she sleeping through the night?”, “what’s the bedtime ...

It usually starts the same way. You swore you wouldn’t bedshare, but at 3 a.m., after the fourth failed bassinet transfer, you pulled your baby into bed beside you. Everyone slept. And then it ...

Few parenting conversations in early childhood elicit as much angst and judgment as the one about our children’s sleep: Where should they sleep, and how do we get them to sleep through the night? We ...

Mothers who bedshare – sleep in the same bed with their infants – tend to breastfeed longer, new research suggests. The findings explore and quantify the relationship between breastfeeding and ...

You should know I was once the person to raise an over-plucked eyebrow when someone said they shared a bed with their child. Growing up with Western messaging around what "normal" families looked like ...