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Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US

Tomori, Cecilia

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Cecilia Tomori



Contributors

Sally Dowling
Editor

Kate Boyer
Editor

David Pontin
Editor

Abstract

Expectant parents in the US usually receive advice on all aspects of pregnancy, childbirth and infant care from multiple medical experts. This guidance reflects cultural assumptions that childbearing requires specialised medical knowledge, which divides the care of mothers and infants under the supervision of separate medical experts, and further fragments various aspects of infant care, including feeding and sleep. This chapter uses historical and ethnographic research to explore the origins of these assumptions and their consequences for American parents who embark on breastfeeding. I suggest that severing the links between these evolutionarily and physiologically connected domains (McKenna et al, 2007;...

Citation

Tomori, C. (2018). Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US. In S. Dowling, K. Boyer, & D. Pontin (Eds.), Social experiences of breastfeeding: building bridges between research, policy and practice (115-130). Policy Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv4rftfc.14

Online Publication Date Sep 5, 2018
Publication Date Sep 5, 2018
Deposit Date Sep 13, 2017
Publicly Available Date Sep 5, 2020
Publisher Policy Press
Pages 115-130
Book Title Social experiences of breastfeeding: building bridges between research, policy and practice.
Chapter Number 6
DOI https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv4rftfc.14
Publisher URL https://policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/social-experiences-of-breastfeeding

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