Meaning of breastsleeping | Babel Free

Definitions

The practice where a mother cosleeps with her baby while breastfeeding.

neologism, uncountable

Examples

“Chris sleeps right through while I put an arm around Tabitha while I'm feeding and keep the duvet down. I have woken up once or twice and panicked - that's what I don't like about breastsleeping. I stopped breastfeeding Henry around nine months. We had to do controlled crying so he would stay in his cot at night. It took four nights of screaming, which was horrific, but he's been an absolute dream ever since.”

“What if objects had an active role in shaping our health behaviors? Using my experience breastfeeding my baby, I explore this question through a journey from strict adherence to standard biomedical advice for safe infant sleep to heading the urgings of my body, specifically that of breastmilk, which I come to see as playing an agentic role in my practice of "breastsleeping."”

“"Breastsleeping"—a combination of co-sleeping and breastfeeding— is our species' heritage.”

CEFR level