In Contrast to Cultural Practices of Sleep in the United

question 27

Multiple Choice

In contrast to cultural practices of sleep in the United States, the Kipsigi community in rural Kenya practice

• A) a method called CIO (cry it out) in which they ignore infants' cries.
• B) allow infants to take many naps and wake several times throughout the night to nurse on demand.
• C) an "attachment" approach to achieve infant self-sleeping.
• D) a method in which infants sleep in a separate room from birth to gain independence on a path to early help with chores.
• E) encouraging infants to sleep many hours at night in a single stretch, by parents working to keep infants awake during the day.

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