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  • This article is one-sided and insulting

    While the author says there is no evidence that co-sleeping is beneficial to parents and child, that is simply not true. There are a deluge of studies that support co-sleeping, not to mention the fact that SIDS is unknown in cultures where co-sleeping is the norm. Further, the author sites only this one recent study to support his sweeping ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by kat.don on March 26, 2009

  • PSYCHO PENGUIN

    Dude, you are giving penguins a bad name. Chillax and please step away from the cap-locks.
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by TobyF on March 10, 2009

  • Death Rates

    The journal article in question, ''US Infant Mortality Trends...'' shows that while ASSB (rollover, etc) deaths increased from 2.8 to 12.5 per 100,000 over the 20year study, SIDs deaths decreased from 142.9 to 54.6 per 100,000. Although they do a poor job of correlating cosleeping with these rate changes, it looks to me like a correlation is in ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by TobyF on March 10, 2009

  • Bed sharing served ancient humans

    Bed-sharing might well be what nature intended for babies. After all, for most of human history, babies were at risk from carnivorous animals. Keeping the baby close at night (and all day) helped the babies survive. In Europe during the Ice Age, it must have been pretty cold at night too, so co-sleeping helped keep the babies warm enough. And ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by Margaret27 on March 5, 2009

  • responsible vs. irresponsible choices

    I'd like to see a study that distinguishes between RESPONSIBLE co-sleeping the more haphazard, exhausted approach that can lead to such a tragic result. My husband and I co-slept with our daughter when she was a baby, and now we do with our eight-month-old son. However, we take several precautions. We remove all soft, squishy bedding and sleep ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by JennyK on February 6, 2009

  • bed-sharing for light sleepers

    I am an advocate of co-sleeping, which I did with both of my children, but only for the reason that I am a very light sleeper. Co-sleeping requires vigilance. You must be able to awaken quickly when there are changes in the sleeping environment, in response to a baby's cry or movements. I slept on my back, with the baby on the outside of the bed ...
    Posted to What's Up, Doc by amusethemuse on February 5, 2009