Supporting a ‘Bottom-Up,’ New, No-Holds-Barred, Psycho-Anthro-Pediatrics: Making Room (Scientifically) for Bedsharing Families

Substantial lines of evidence from studies of human biology and evolutionary anthropology, including cross-cultural, cross-species, and psychobiological data, help explain the underlying reasons why breastfeeding mothers are inclined to sleep with their infants (1). While surely not an endpoint leading to any single assessment, conclusion or public (including clinical) health recommendation, species-wide biological and psychological data on breastfeeding mothers (as well as breastfed infants) at very least coalesce to give us a powerful beginning point for understanding how and why parent-infant interactions and nighttime caregiving strategies develop as they do.

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