25. James McKenna: Biologically Normal Infant Sleep
Professor James J. McKenna is recognized as the world’s leading authority on mother-infant cosleeping in relationship to breastfeeding and SIDS. In recognition of his work in 2009 he was admitted as a Fellow into the select body of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's most prestigious scientific society.
Initially Professor McKenna specialized in studying the social behavior of monkeys and apes but following the birth of his son in 1978 he began to apply the principles of human behavioral evolution to the understanding of human infancy. At the University of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Department of Neurology his research team pioneered the first studies of the physiology and behavior of mothers and infant sleeping together and apart, using physiological and behavioral recording devices.
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Donald Winnicott: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Winnicott
Sarah Hrdy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Blaffer_Hrdy
Lee Gettler: https://anthropology.nd.edu/faculty-and-staff/faculty-by-alpha/lee-gettler/
Mother Infant Sleep Laboratory: https://cosleeping.nd.edu/
Book: Safe Infant Sleep: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44904308-safe-infant-sleep
Book: Sleeping With Your Baby: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/377681.Sleeping_with_Your_Baby
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