When
Wednesday, December 6, 2017 from 10:00 AM to 11:45 AM PSTAdd to Calendar
Where
This is an online event.
Understanding Breastfeeding, Bed-sharing, and SIDS
Please join us for a live webinar on Wed, December 6, 2017 at 10a.m. (PDT) featuring Dr. Helen Ball, professor of anthropology at Durham University UK and infant sleep researcher. Dr. Ball is the Director of the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab, Co-Director of Infant Sleep Information Source, and Chair of the Scientific Committee at Lullaby Trust.
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Understanding Breastfeeding, Bed-sharing, & SIDS with Prof Helen Ball, PhD. Objectives,
Objective 1: Understand the relationship between breastfeeding and infant sleep location
Objective 2: Understand the relationship between bed-sharing & SIDS
Objective 3: Explore approaches to helping parents make informed choices re. bed-sharing and resources to support health professionals
Session description
The notion that infant sleep environments are ‘good’ or ‘bad’ and that parents who receive appropriate instruction will modify their infant-care habits has been fundamental to SIDS reduction campaigns. However, infant sleep location recommendations have failed to emulate the previously successful infant sleep position campaigns that dramatically reduced infant deaths. This talk examines how SIDS risk reduction messages are generated, disseminated, and how they are received by parents. Using examples from research around the world, and her own research such as the Bradford Infant Care Study (BradICS) Helen discusses how parents understand SIDS risk-reduction and what affects whether messages are implemented or rejected in different communities and cultural groups.
She argues that failure to understand local parenting beliefs and cultural practices results in ineffective campaigns that fail to engage the recipients. In developing effective interventions she argues that we must step all the way back to the research upon which SIDS-risks are identified and ascertain how culture and ethnicity affects the magnitude and prevalence of each risk. Qualitative studies are particularly important in understanding local infant care traditions and beliefs that become barriers to implementation of safe sleep messaging. Recognition and exploration of these issues can then lead to tailored guidance that is relevant for families in each community.
Professor Helen Ball is past-Head of the Anthropology Dept at Durham University UK, and Director of the Parent-Infant Sleep Lab. Se has spent the last 20 years researching parent-infant sleep and has authored over 70 research articles on this topic. She regularly contributes to national and international policy and practice guideline development and speaks around the world about her research. In 2012 she cofounded the Infant Sleep Information Source, and in 2013 she received an award from the UK’s Economic and Social Research Council for Outstanding Impact in Society for her work.
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