PSY 3123 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Cortisol, Asthma, Breastfeeding

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3123
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

All mammals sleep in proximity to their young. Humans traditionally did too, crib sleeping was rare until the 20th century. This shift occurred because western cultures began to favour individualism, autonomy, romantic love, sexual privacy, adoption of bottle feeding. The place of infant sleep is a controversial topic, there are recommendations against bed-sharing but some parents argue for bedsharing. Red being more incidents of bedsharing and green being less. In the netherlands: at two months the highest cases of bed sharing occur among caribbean, the. At 24 months, caribbeans are still the highest, then moderate for turkish and lowest for dutch. Showing that turkish maintains their low levels until two years, and dutch drops of dramatically. Dutch mothers are more likely to bed share if they are depressed, the child has a bad temperament, or their is household crowding (reactive bed-sharing).