Human Growth and Development / Unit 3 HGD 0309 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Sleep and Culture
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The idea
Co-sleeping, infants sleeping with caregivers, is common worldwide, in as many as seventy percent of families; separate sleep is typical in the US and UK.
In practice
Swaddling in rural Guatemala, and Mayan mothers holding their children to sleep without lullabies.
Where people slip
US co-sleeping, regular or occasional, has risen to about half of families over two decades.
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