OBJECTIVE To ascertain the prevalence of infant care practices in a metropolitan community in the United States with attention to feeding routines and modifiable risk factors associated with sudden unexplained infant death (specifically, prone sleeping position, bed sharing, and maternal smoking). METHODS We conducted an initial face-to-face meeting followed by a telephone survey of 189 women...

This paper describes our preliminary research on "attention-sharing" in infants' language acquisition. Attention-sharing is the activity of paying one's attention to someone else's attentional target. This enables one to observe others' sensory-input (what they are perceiving from the target) and motor-output (what they are doing in response to the target). Being inspired by lack of attention-s...

OBJECTIVE Sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related causes of infant mortality have several known risk factors. Less is known about the association of those risk factors at different times during infancy. Our objective was to determine any associations between risk factors for sleep-related deaths at different ages. METHODS A cross-sectional study of sleep-related infant deaths fro...

Bed sharing, breastfeeding and sudden infant death Blair PS, Heron J, Fleming PJ. Relationship between bed sharing and breastfeeding: longitudinal, population-based analysis. Pediatrics 2010;126: e1119-e1126 This study used prospective, population-based data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children in the United Kingdom to investigate nocturnal bed sharing at 0-2, 6-8, 17-20, 30...