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  1. Engaging the multi-agency workforce in targeted prevention of sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUDI): implementing Eyes on the Baby

    Article • Perspectives in Public Health, June 2026, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  2. Adult-worn sling and baby carrier safety: exploring parental practices, knowledge and information needs

    Article • BMJ Paediatrics Open, June 2026, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  3. Safety and benefits of adult-worn slings and baby carriers: a narrative systematic review to inform guidance for parents

    Article • BMJ Paediatrics Open, June 2026, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  4. Supporting families and building relationships: Evaluation of a home and sleep safety equipment scheme for impoverished communities

    Article • Public Health in Practice, June 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  5. Perceived Safety in Childbirth: Pregnancy Predictors of Women's Experiences During Childbirth

    Article • Birth, January 2026, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  6. Lactation Newsmakers - Helen Ball Research That Makes a Difference: Connecting Applied Anthropology, Infant Sleep, Breastfeeding, and Parenting

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, September 2025, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  7. ‘We don’t ask for a luxury life, just basic things’: the experiences of mothers with babies in the UK asylum system

    Article • Wellbeing Space and Society, June 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  8. Correction: Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Article • Human Nature, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  9. Death from Failed Protection? An Evolutionary-Developmental Theory of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Article • Human Nature, July 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  10. Construction of the Views oN Infant Sleep (VNIS) Questionnaire

    Article • Early Human Development, April 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  11. Piloting Eyes on the Baby: A Multiagency Training and Implementation Intervention Linking Sudden Unexpected Infant Death Prevention and Safeguarding

    Article • Health & Social Care in the Community, January 2024, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  12. Sociodemographic, temporal and bedtime routine correlates of sleep timing and duration in South Asian and white children: A Born in Bradford study

    Article • Sleep Medicine X, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  13. Construction of the Views oN Infant Sleep (VNIS) questionnaire: A pilot study

    Article • September 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  14. Multiagency approaches to preventing sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI): a review and analysis of UK policies

    Article • BMJ Public Health, June 2023, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  15. Exploring the Longitudinal Relationship Between Short Sleep Duration, Temperament and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Symptoms in a Biethnic Population of Children Aged Between 6 and 61 Months: A Born in Bradford Study

    Article • Journal of Attention Disorders, May 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  16. Relationships between postpartum depression, sleep, and infant feeding in the early postpartum: An exploratory analysis

    Article • Frontiers in Psychiatry, March 2023, Frontiers

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  17. ABM Clinical Protocol #37: Physiological Infant Care—Managing Nighttime Breastfeeding in Young Infants

    Article • Breastfeeding Medicine, March 2023, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  18. The impact of swaddling upon breastfeeding: A critical review

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, February 2023, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  19. Sleep deprivation among adolescents in urban and indigenous-rural Mexican communities

    Article • Scientific Reports, January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  20. Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, January 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  21. Digital health tools to support parents with parent-infant sleep and mental well-being

    Article • npj Digital Medicine, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  22. Bedsharing may partially explain the reduced risk of sleep-related death in breastfed infants

    Article • Frontiers in Pediatrics, December 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  23. The effect of swaddling on infant sleep and arousal: A systematic review and narrative synthesis

    Article • Frontiers in Pediatrics, November 2022, Frontiers

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  24. Sleep Patterns of Twins

    Article • August 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  25. Bed-sharing and SIDS: an evidence-based approach

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2022, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  26. Lost in translation—the influence of language on infant sleep research

    Article • Sleep Health, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  27. “Sleep and the family system”—A preface

    Article • Sleep Health, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  28. Maternal Depression and Early Parenting: A Comparison Between Culturally and Linguistically Diverse and Australian born Mothers

    Article • Australasian Psychiatry, January 2022, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  29. The Validity, Reliability, and Feasibility of Measurement Tools Used to Assess Sleep of Pre-school Aged Children: A Systematic Rapid Review

    Article • Frontiers in Pediatrics, November 2021, Frontiers

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  30. A Box to Put the Baby in: UK Parent Perceptions of Two Baby Box Programmes Promoted for Infant Sleep

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2021, MDPI AG

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  31. Biocultural perspectives on infant sleep

    Article • September 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  32. Associations of diarised sleep onset time, period and duration with total and central adiposity in a biethnic sample of young children: the Born in Bradford observational cohort study

    Article • BMJ Open, May 2021, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  33. Biologically normal sleep in the mother‐infant dyad

    Article • American Journal of Human Biology, March 2021, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  34. Associations of diarised sleep onset time, period and duration with total and central adiposity in a biethnic sample of young children: the Born in Bradford study

    Article • September 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  35. Development and evaluation of ‘Sleep, Baby & You’—An approach to supporting parental well-being and responsive infant caregiving

    Article • PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  36. Baby-box schemes in England: parent and practitioner experiences, and recommendations

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  37. Parental knowledge of safe infant sleep and sudden infant death syndrome is inadequate in Croatia

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, February 2020, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  38. Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol on Breastfeeding and Bedsharing

    Article • Breastfeeding Medicine, January 2020, Mary Ann Liebert Inc

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  39. Breastfeeding and infant sleep – what medical practitioners need to know

    Article • December 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  40. The Mother-Infant Sleep Nexus: Night-Time Experiences in Early Infancy and Later Outcomes

    Article • October 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  41. Anthropology of infant sleep research past and future

    Article • American Anthropologist, July 2019, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr. Cecília Tomori

  42. What approach should we take to bed-sharing, breastfeeding & SIDS? The latest research.

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, June 2019, SAGE Publications

    Dr Kathleen A Marinelli, Professor Helen L. Ball

  43. Conducting Online Surveys

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, May 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  44. The Possums Infant Sleep Program: parents' perspectives on a novel parent-infant sleep intervention in Australia

    Article • Sleep Health, December 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  45. Concerns about the promotion of a cardboard baby box as a place for infants to sleep

    Article • BMJ, October 2018, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  46. Discrepancies in maternal reports of infant sleep vs. actigraphy by mode of feeding

    Article • Sleep Medicine, September 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  47. Breastfeeding, Antidepressants, and Depression in the Mercy Pregnancy and Emotional Well-Being Study

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, March 2018, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  48. Babies in boxes and the missing links on safe sleep: Human evolution and cultural revolution

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, October 2017, Wiley

    Dr. Cecília Tomori, Professor Helen L. Ball

  49. The Atlantic Divide: Contrasting U.K. and U.S. Recommendations on Cosleeping and Bed-Sharing

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, August 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  50. Improving mother-baby care by better understanding our evolutionary biology.

    Article • Nature Ecology & Evolution, February 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  51. Early Childhood Pediatric Sleep Concerns for Parents: Co-sleeping☆

    Article • January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  52. Sleep Duration and Adiposity in Early Childhood: Evidence for Bidirectional Associations from the Born in Bradford Study

    Article • SLEEP, December 2016, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  53. Bi-ethnic infant thermal care beliefs in Bradford, UK

    Article • International Journal of Human Rights in Healthcare, June 2016, Emerald

    Dr Anna Cronin de Chavez, Professor Helen L. Ball

  54. Does bed-sharing improve breastfeeding duration?

    Article • Acta Paediatrica, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  55. A qualitative study in parental perceptions and understanding of SIDS-reduction guidance in a UK bi-cultural urban community

    Article • BMC Pediatrics, January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  56. Baby-Lag: Methods for Assessing Parental Tiredness and Fatigue

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  57. Exploring Maternal Perceptions of Infant Sleep and Feeding Method Among Mothers in the United Kingdom: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

    Article • Maternal and Child Health Journal, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  58. Infant sleep-related deaths: why do parents take risks?

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2015, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  59. The BMJ illustrates hazardous co-sleeping

    Article • BMJ, March 2015, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  60. Empowering families to make informed choices about sleep safety

    Article • British Journal of Midwifery, March 2015, Mark Allen Group

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  61. The relationship between early life modifiable risk factors for childhood obesity, ethnicity and body mass index at age 3 years: findings from the Born in Bradford birth cohort study

    Article • BMC Obesity, February 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  62. SIDS and Infant Sleep Ecology

    Article • Evolution Medicine and Public Health, October 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  63. Agreement between routine and research measurement of infant height and weight

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, September 2014, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  64. Maternal accounts of their breast-feeding intent and early challenges after caesarean childbirth

    Article • Midwifery, June 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  65. Response to ‘Breast-feeding intent and early challenges after caesarean childbirth’

    Article • Midwifery, April 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  66. Exploring Socioeconomic Differences in Bedtime Behaviours and Sleep Duration in English Preschool Children

    Article • Infant and Child Development, February 2014, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  67. One size does not fit all

    Article • Journal of Psychedelic Studies, September 2013, Akademiai Kiado

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  68. Association between Length of Exclusive Breastfeeding and Subsequent Breastfeeding Continuation

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, July 2013, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  69. COULD PARENTAL RULES PLAY A ROLE IN THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SHORT SLEEP AND OBESITY IN YOUNG CHILDREN?

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, June 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  70. Misrecognition of need: Women's experiences of and explanations for undergoing cesarean delivery

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, May 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  71. Supporting parents who are worried about their newborn's sleep

    Article • BMJ, April 2013, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  72. Napping in English preschool children and the association with parents’ attitudes

    Article • Sleep Medicine, April 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  73. Infant Sleep Development: Location, Feeding and Expectations in the Postnatal Period

    Article • The Open Sleep Journal, April 2013, Bentham Science Publishers

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  74. Nighttime parenting strategies and sleep-related risks to infants

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  75. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) risk reduction and infant sleep location – Moving the discussion forward

    Article • Social Science & Medicine, February 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  76. Nighttime Nurturing: An Evolutionary Perspective on Breastfeeding and Sleep

    Article • November 2012, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  77. Postnatal Unit Bassinet Types When Rooming-In after Cesarean Birth

    Article • Journal of Human Lactation, August 2012, SAGE Publications

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  78. Use of interactive telephone technology for longitudinal data collection in a large trial

    Article • Contemporary Clinical Trials, March 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  79. Bed- and Sofa-Sharing Practices in a UK Biethnic Population

    Article • PEDIATRICS, February 2012, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  80. Trade-offs underlying maternal breastfeeding decisions: a conceptual model

    Article • Maternal and Child Nutrition, December 2011, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  81. Infant care practices related to sudden infant death syndrome in South Asian and White British families in the UK

    Article • Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, August 2011, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  82. Randomised trial of sidecar crib use on breastfeeding duration (NECOT)

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, April 2011, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  83. Exploring parental behaviour, infant sleep and SIDS risk with South Asian and Euro-origin families in Bradford, UK

    Article • January 2010, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  84. Airway covering during bed-sharing

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  85. Practicing Evolutionary Medicine in a Postnatal Ward: Ameliorating Iatrogenic Obstacles to Breastfeeding

    Article • March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  86. Practices, advice and support regarding prolonged breastfeeding: a descriptive study from Sri Lanka

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, August 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  87. Evolutionary Paediatrics A Case Study in Applying Darwinian Medicine

    Article • June 2008, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  88. Together or apart? A behavioural and physiological investigation of sleeping arrangements for twin babies

    Article • Midwifery, December 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  89. Bed-sharing practices of initially breastfed infants in the first 6 months of life

    Article • Infant and Child Development, August 2007, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  90. Mother–infant cosleeping, breastfeeding and sudden infant death syndrome: What biological anthropology has discovered about normal infant sleep and pediatric sleep medicine

    Article • American Journal of Physical Anthropology, January 2007, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  91. Parent-infant bed-sharing behavior

    Article • Human Nature, September 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  92. Randomised trial of infant sleep location on the postnatal ward

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, July 2006, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  93. CORRECTION

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, March 2005, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  94. Infants bed-sharing with mothers

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, December 2004, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  95. The prevalence and characteristics associated with parent-infant bed-sharing in England

    Article • Archives of Disease in Childhood, December 2004, BMJ

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  96. “New” practice of bedsharing and risk of SIDS

    Article • The Lancet, May 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Helen L. Ball, Dr Martin Peter Ward Platt

  97. Breastfeeding, Bed-Sharing, and Infant Sleep

    Article • Birth, September 2003, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  98. Reasons to bed-share: Why parents sleep with their infants

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, November 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  99. Triadic bed-sharing and infant temperature

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, September 2002, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  100. Surprised by Publication

    Article • PEDIATRICS, November 2001, American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  101. Sleeping like a baby: Attitudes and experiences of bedsharing in Northeast England

    Article • Medical Anthropology, January 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  102. Parent–infant co‐sleeping: fathers' roles and perspectives

    Article • Infant and Child Development, June 2000, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  103. Parent-infant co-sleeping: fathers' roles and perspectives

    Article • Infant and Child Development, January 2000, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  104. The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, June 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  105. Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge: Cross-Cultural Perspectives

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, June 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  106. INSURANCE OVULATION, EMBRYO MORTALITY AND TWINNING

    Article • Journal of Biosocial Science, April 1999, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  107. Bonobo: The Forgotten Ape

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, March 1999, JSTOR

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  108. Where Will the Baby Sleep? Attitudes and Practices of New and Experienced Parents Regarding Cosleeping with Their Newborn Infants

    Article • American Anthropologist, March 1999, Wiley

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  109. Daddy’s Girl? Anomalous Social Rank of a Female Rhesus Macaque (Macaca mulatta)

    Article • Folia Primatologica, January 1997, Brill

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  110. Reevaluating "Twin Infanticide"

    Article • Current Anthropology, December 1996, University of Chicago Press

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  111. Abnormal births and other “ill omens”

    Article • Human Nature, December 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  112. Bedding-in on the post-natal ward

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  113. North-East Cot (NECOT) Trial: Postnatal care and breastfeeding duration

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Helen L. Ball

  114. Parental manipulation of postnatal survival and well-being: are parental sex preferences adaptive?

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Professor Helen L. Ball