Back to All Events

CO-SLEEPING CURIOUS? A DISCUSSION WITH JAMES MCKENNA, Ph. D.

  • University Area Community Center 14013 North 22nd Street Tampa, FL, 33613 United States (map)
cosleeping.jpg

Learn more about the benefits of co-sleeping, bed-sharing and breastsleeping for parents and babies.

Dr. James McKenna is the director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame and a world-renowned expert on infant sleep. He has published over 150 articles and six books including a popular parenting book Sleeping With Your baby: A Parents Guide To Co-sleeping. Learn more about Dr. James McKenna here.

Tickets available here!

Dr. McKenna will be presenting on The Return Of Breastsleeping: Humankind's Oldest and Most Successful Sleep and Feeding Arrangement:
Part 1: why we need the concept of breastsleeping
Part 2: the biological and evidence of maternal-infant and paternal biology supporting and further justifying the breastsleeping concept

Saturday, March 30th 2-5pm
Please note the CHANGE OF LOCATION, due to facility issues. Updated location: the University Area Community Center, 14013 North 22nd Street Tampa, FL 33613
We have been approved for 3 L-CERPs for lactation professionals.

Generously Sponsored by:

Tampa Bay Breastfeeding Task Force

University of South Florida- Department of Anthropology

Birthlatch

Birth Behind Bars

Earlier Event: March 7
Birth Story Circle- St. Petersburg
Later Event: April 7
Backyard Yoga for Birth Workers