Cecilia Tomori
Changing Cultures of Night-time Breastfeeding and Sleep in the US
Tomori, Cecilia
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Sally Dowling
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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;...
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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 |
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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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