Etymology

breastsleeping

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Today it means: The practice where a mother cosleeps with her baby while breastfeeding. Full definition →

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The story

Compound of breast + sleeping. Coined by American biological anthropologist James J. McKenna in 2014.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.