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In case you didn't know? I've stopped using this one, but have taken on another! If you'd liked to get involved over there- let me know! ;-) |
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[Mar. 5th, 2005|02:40 pm] |
Well, this journal is not in use anymore.
Want to know about my new one? Drop me a comment, and ask. |
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| Co-sleeping. Have you done your research? |
[May. 3rd, 2002|03:49 pm] |
I lifted this from another attachment parent. I feel very strongly that if listen to many outscpoken "experts" that you're doing your children an extreme disservice. After all- how do YOU feel about sleeping all alone?
From http://www.askdrsears.com/news/safesleep.asp
"...the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is launching a campaign based on research data from 1999, 2000, and 2001. During these three years, there have been 180 cases of SIDS occurring in an adult bed. Again, that's around 60 per year, similar to statistics from 1990 to 1997. How many total cases of SIDS have occurred during these 3 years? Around 2600 per year. This decline from the previous decade is thought to be due to the "back to sleep" campaign - educating parents to place their babies on their back to sleep. So looking at the past three years, 2% of SIDS cases have occurred in adult beds, and 98% of cases have occurred in cribs. Again, which place to sleep sounds safer?"
From http://www.parenthood.com/articles/phw660.htm
"Gaps in breathing are normal during the early months of infancy, and if not prevented or attended to, can lead to Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS). Recent research suggests that shared sleep can help prevent this heart-breaking event, in two ways. First, recent research has shown that the mother's breathing provides important cues to her infant, reminding him to take a breath following exhalation, preventing a SIDS situation from developing. Second, the mother is nearby to help by arousing the infant. A breastfeeding mother and baby tend to have coordinated sleeping and dreaming cycles, making her keenly sensitive to her baby. If she is sleeping close by, she will automatically awaken if there is a long breathing gap. But if the baby is alone, this life-saving intervention cannot take place."
From http://www.lalecheleague.org/Release/cosleeping.html
"Dr. James McKenna, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame, and an expert on the subject of co-sleeping, believes there to be more danger in leaving an infant a
lone in a crib than in arranging a safe co-sleeping environment."
From http://Cp.pdr.net/be_core/search/show_article_search.jsp?searchurl=/be_core/content/journals
/k/data/2000/0600/kanderson3.html&navtype=k&heading=k&title=Cover@story:@Co-sleeping:@Can@we@ever@put@the@issue@to@rest?
"Much of the world has practiced this type of co-sleeping for thousands of years"
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"More than four of five (84.2%) parents of infants who died of SIDS were smokers."
From http://www.littlekoala.com/familybed.html
"Clinical experience suggests that true overlying is a very rare cause of infant death under usual circumstances...accidents occur primarily when the adults are severely intoxicated by alcohol or drugs or when they are markedly obese (Bass et al., 1986)."
From http://www.breastfeeding.com/reading_room/co_slepping.html
"Harvard psychiatrist Michael Commons and his colleagues recently presented the American Association for the Advancement of Science with research that suggests that babies who sleep alone are more susceptible to stress disorders."
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"Children who share sleep with their parents are actually more independent than their peers. They perform better in school, have higher self esteem, and fewer health problems."
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"In his book on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, pediatrician William Sears cites co-sleeping as a proactive measure parents can take to reduce the risk of this tragedy. McKenna’s research shows that babies who sleep with parents spend less time in Level III sleep, a state of deep sleep when the risk of apneas are increased."
From http://www.bestfed.com/katie/familybed.htm
"...the family bed's loss in popularity paralleled the shift to bottle-feeding and away from breastfeeding"..."Some tie the decrease in sleep-sharing to twentieth-century male domination of parenting advice and the depersonalization of society after the industrial revolution. Behaviorist Dr. John Watson, once a popular and frequent contributor to Harper's, McCall's, and Cosmopolitan magazines, wrote in 1928: "No one knows enough to raise a child. The world would be considerably better off if we were to stop having children for twenty years (except those reared for experimental purposes)"
If you still want more, go to http://www.kellymom.com/familybed.html and see the thirty or so links there. |
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