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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
Re: So I type 3 words in caps...
Listen...I co-slept with both of my kids and not because it was better than a crib. It made it easier for me, a nursing mother to nurse on demand, easier for the baby to nurse when needed during the night. I think each parent needs to make their own decision of what is best. If you haven't had children yet at this point, you really don't know what ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by margieinoakland on March 22, 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
good article w/compeling evidence, though it makes me wonder
This article was very interesting and I definitely will take some things to heart, especially about the risks of suffocation, and the evidence is very compelling, it makes me want to be more careful. However, I'm always weary about anyone make arguments based on studies and question any study and how it was conducted and I will study more of it ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by rkpack2 on February 6, 2009
slipping with baby
When my boy was born I could not hold him on my hands because my hands had anemia. So when I breastfed I took my boy in the bed. I do not think it was good idea, I never considered sleeping with baby, but I did not have choice: I could drop my son. All the time I afraid of overlaying. I never took my son to our bed on night. One morning I come ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by nightstar on February 6, 2009
the family bed ... no pitchforks
As a critical-thinking father who's shared his bed with a wife and baby for going on 20 months now, I can say that while co-sleeping should be examined and questioned (as should all baby-related activities), it's also not necessarily the risk that studies and critics make it out to be. I've heard of a few tragic suffocation cases in my area over ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by Ryan Miller on February 6, 2009
These statistics are skewed
What I want to know is why the parent's bed is grouped with sofas and couches. Sofas are a very dangerous place to sleep with your child, because parents usually wedge the child between them and the back of the couch so the child doesn't roll off. The child then becomes crushed by the parent and suffocates. I'm sure if you were to look at ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by Lazurii on February 6, 2009
Reasoning
Alright guys enough of this bantering back and forth. Plenty of people seem to have a friend who's child died from accidental suffocation or knows someone who had it happen or something of that nature, and I certainly don't undermine your suffering. It is truly tragic when anyone dies unexpectedly before their time, much less someone that young. ...
Posted to What's Up, Doc by SarahSim on February 6, 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

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