"breastsleeping" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Compound of breast + sleeping. Coined by American biological anthropologist James J. McKenna in 2014. Etymology templates: {{glossary|Compound}} Compound, {{com+|en|breast|sleeping}} Compound of breast + sleeping, {{coinage|en|Q106567936|in=2014}} Coined by American biological anthropologist James J. McKenna in 2014 Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} breastsleeping (uncountable)
  1. (medicine, neologism) The practice where a mother cosleeps with her baby while breastfeeding. Tags: neologism, uncountable Categories (topical): Medicine
    Sense id: en-breastsleeping-en-noun-ZYGiPXvI Categories (other): English neologisms Topics: medicine, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} breastsleeping
  1. present participle and gerund of breastsleep Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: breastsleep
    Sense id: en-breastsleeping-en-verb-lpV923TE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 42 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 39 61 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 33 67
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2
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          "ref": "2017 March 14, Tamsin Kelly, quoting Charlotte Catton, “Breastsleeping: Is This How New Mums Can Get More Sleep?”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 2021-10-23:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "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.\"",
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