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Share sleep with your baby.
Sleeping with your infant is a great way to bond with the baby and makes
nighttime breastfeeding easier. The baby
may feel much more secure when in the warmth of the parents's sleep.
There has been much debate over this topic in the past year. The CPSC has
issued a guidline that it is dangerous to co-sleep.
However, if you have none of the risk factors, it *may* in fact be safer!
Some people let their babies sleep in bed with them; others use a co-sleeper.
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Links:
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Professor James McKenna
"The University of Notre Dame Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab is both a
research and teaching laboratory. Upperclass undergradute students at Notre
Dame gain first hand experience conducting cutting-edge research examining
issues of national and international significance. These issues include the
saftey of different sleep environments as well as the the physiological
and/or pschological consequences of the different choices of sleeping
arrangements parents make."
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CPSC Warns Against
Placing Babies in Adult Beds; Study finds 64 deaths each year from suffocation and
strangulation
The start of the debate
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It's None of Their Business by Peggy O'Mara (Mothering Magazine)
"On September 29, 1999 the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a
recommendation against co-sleeping. The CPSC cited research that indicates an
increased risk for SIDS, for suffocation and for strangulation associated with
cosleeping. This research, published by D.A. Drago and A.L. Dannenberg in
Pediatrics (103:5:e59,1999), has been sharply criticized in a follow-up
letter to that journal by James J. McKenna, PhD, director of the Mother-Baby
Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame and
Lawrence M. Gartner, MD, co-author of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
1997 statement on breastfeeding."
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Books:
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The Family Bed by Tine Thevenin
The original resource
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Nigthtime Parenting by William Sears, MD
How to Get Your Baby and Child to Sleep
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Three in a Bed by Deborah Jackson
The Benefits of Sharing Your Bed With Your Baby
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Local Sources:
- Arms Reach
"The Arm's Reach Bedside Co-SleeperŪ bassinet is a unique creation that allows
you and your baby to sleep safely and comfortably next to each other from the
moment baby comes home."
Available in Atlanta at: Babies `R' Us, Burlington Coat Factory and others
Phone: 1.800.954.9353.
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However, I do reserve the right to make the
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