Sleep
Sleep looks different for every family.
Empowering parents to experiment with what works for their baby and family instead of following cultural or biomedical norms reduces anxiety and improves everyone’s well being. To understand what normal infant sleep involves, let your baby show you.
Nourish is here to support mothers and the wider family with sleep.
Resources for Sleep
Nourish has gathered some links that are useful for understanding infant sleep and supporting parents.
Basis is for parents who wish to make informed choices about infant sleep and night time care.
This website provides evidence - based information about Dr James McKenna's work on mother - infant cosleeping and breastfeeding.
The Safe Sleep Seven - seven criteria for safe bed sharing, a safe surface checklist and links to further resources.
The Lullaby Trust raises awareness of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies.
Safe, practical and accessible information about bedsharing.
"I wanted to create content about the nitty-gritty, practical aspects of being a modern parent with a baby in your bed... The beauty, challenges, and intricacies of safe bedsharing"
Lyndsey has worked with infants, children and families for almost 20 years. She supports both families and professionals with her wealth of knowledge in infant feeding and behaviour, sleep, and parenting. Lyndsey also has a supportive and informative Instagram page.
Books on Infant Sleep
Nourish has gathered some links that are useful for understanding infant sleep and supporting parents.
Why Your Baby's Sleep Matters
Sarah Ockwell-Smith
In Why Your Baby's Sleep Matters, Sarah Ockwell-Smith demonstrates how nurturing babies at night helps their brain development, and covers the main sleep topics including naps, SIDS and night weaning.
Safe Infant Sleep
James McKenna
In Safe Infant Sleep, the world's authority on cosleeping breaks down the complicated political and social aspects of sleep safety, exposes common misconceptions, and compares current recommendations to hard science.