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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
Did anyone else catch this lovely tidbit in their Sunday paper?
http://tinyurl.com/2m3gt I'll skip right past the "how bad co-sleeping is" bit and just wonder why in damnation "Consider breastfeeding" is #4. Sigh. Then there was the good laugh provided by #13 - finally a good reason to quit smoking when pregnant: it will make your baby want to be held. -- Rhiannon Mom to M. Girl (28 months) and O. Boy (6 1/2 months) |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
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Okay, IME it is next to impossible to bf and get baby's sleeping on track without co-sleeping! What a crock... I swear, everyone I know cosleeps... its like a dirty little secret, everyone does it but no one wants to admit it. I was very open about cosleeping in my moms groups and just recently everyone is coming "out of the cosleeping closet!" Molly "She's A Goddess" wrote in message newsbCMb.35625$xy6.87934@attbi_s02... Did anyone else catch this lovely tidbit in their Sunday paper? http://tinyurl.com/2m3gt I'll skip right past the "how bad co-sleeping is" bit and just wonder why in damnation "Consider breastfeeding" is #4. Sigh. Then there was the good laugh provided by #13 - finally a good reason to quit smoking when pregnant: it will make your baby want to be held. -- Rhiannon Mom to M. Girl (28 months) and O. Boy (6 1/2 months) |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
Molly Ging wrote: Nice... Okay, IME it is next to impossible to bf and get baby's sleeping on track without co-sleeping! I doubt that - I'm sure I'm not the only one who breastfed a crib-sleeper and never had to do anything to get his sleeping on track. Clisby |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
"Molly Ging" wrote in message
... Nice... Okay, IME it is next to impossible to bf and get baby's sleeping on track without co-sleeping! What a crock... I swear, everyone I know cosleeps... its like a dirty little secret, everyone does it but no one wants to admit it. I was very open about cosleeping in my moms groups and just recently everyone is coming "out of the cosleeping closet!" Molly I hold both my hands up. I have co-slept with all 5 babies, never had any problems. Kam does spend a little time in his crib, but he wakes and gets in with us. -- Andrea mom of 5 - latest addition Kamron David 7 months still nursing strong with 4 teeth! |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
I doubt that - I'm sure I'm not the only one who breastfed a crib-sleeper and never had to do anything to get his sleeping on track. Clisby That's why I said IME (in my experience) I'm sure there are more molly |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
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"Molly Ging" wrote: Okay, IME it is next to impossible to bf and get baby's sleeping on track without co-sleeping! What a crock... I swear, everyone I know cosleeps... its like a dirty little secret, everyone does it but no one wants to admit it. Hi. I didn't co-sleep, but we bf exclusively and baby got his sleeping on track. I know there are lots of co-sleepers out there but it's sure not everybody. Now you've met me. :-) Personally, I tried it but I could never relax enough to sleep well with baby in the bed. Even in the same room, every gurgle or sigh woke me up, so DS slept in an adjoining room after the first few weeks. When he cried, either DH brought him in bed to nurse, or I went to the nursery and nursed in the glider rocker. In fact, the postings I've seen lately from people whose baby's sleeping isn't on track are the ones with older (7+ month) babies who seem to want to latch on in bed and nurse all night. Nothing against co-sleeping, but it's not like it's guaranteed to instill good sleeping habits. - Lynn |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
Did anyone else catch this lovely tidbit in their Sunday paper?
http://tinyurl.com/2m3gt Dang, what's wrong with number 14? I would have KILLED to have a labor short enough to give birth in the car! --Helen |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
"She's A Goddess" wrote in message newsbCMb.35625$xy6.87934@attbi_s02... Did anyone else catch this lovely tidbit in their Sunday paper? http://tinyurl.com/2m3gt I'll skip right past the "how bad co-sleeping is" bit and just wonder why in damnation "Consider breastfeeding" is #4. Sigh. Then there was the good laugh provided by #13 - finally a good reason to quit smoking when pregnant: it will make your baby want to be held. -- Rhiannon Mom to M. Girl (28 months) and O. Boy (6 1/2 months) Why would you skip the cosleeping comments? Surely if you are a proponent of co-sleeping you would want to keep up to date on the latest research. Just because no one here has ever smothered their baby to death doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Chances are the study doesn't prove that there is anything wrong with sensible co-sleeping but I would want to know what they found. Judy |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
"Molly Ging" wrote
Okay, IME it is next to impossible to bf and get baby's sleeping on track without co-sleeping! What a crock... I swear, everyone I know cosleeps... its like a dirty little secret, everyone does it but no one wants to admit it. I dunno. We did it. DD now sleeps through the night (at nine months) but that's relatively new. She was waking up once a night for a long time and she sleeps down the hall in her crib and we sleep in our bed. She's only slept in our bed on the most horrible nights and even then, only when she woke up at 4 a.m. (or something awful like that) and just wouldn't fall back asleep. It's actually fairly simple to bf and not co-sleep. This is not to say that co-sleeping is bad, just that bf'ing and co-sleeping are certainly not co-dependant and one can easily bf without sharing a bed or a room. -- Melissa (in Los Angeles) Mum to Elizabeth 4/13/03 |
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A dose of bull in the Sunday paper
lynn wrote in message ...
In fact, the postings I've seen lately from people whose baby's sleeping isn't on track are the ones with older (7+ month) babies who seem to want to latch on in bed and nurse all night. Nothing against co-sleeping, but it's not like it's guaranteed to instill good sleeping habits. The recent studies that I've seen show that co-sleeping babies have more sleep problems that crib sleepers: Cosleeping in context: sleep practices and problems in young children in Japan and the United States by Latz S, Wolf AW, Lozoff B. in Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 1999 Apr;153(4):339-46 "Within the US sample, cosleeping was associated with more bedtime struggles (P.001), night waking (P.01), and overall stressful sleep problems (P.01). ... In the Japanese sample, cosleeping was associated only with night waking (P.05)" Emotional and behavioural problems in a sample of Finnish three-year-olds. by Sourander A. published in Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 2001 Jun;10(2):98-104 To quote from the summary of the study: "Co-sleeping with parents was associated with sleep problems." And these two studies, which are a little older: The study Persistence of sleep disturbances in preschool children by Kataria S, Swanson MS, Trevathan GE in J Pediatr 1987 Apr;110(4):642-6 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract) says: "Co-sleeping (sleeping with a parent or sibling) was noted more frequently in sleep-disturbed (34%) than in non-sleep-disturbed (16%) children." Cosleeping and sleep problems in Hispanic-American urban young children. by Schachter FF, Fuchs ML, Bijur PE, Stone RK of Dept of Pediatrics, New York Medical College, Metropolitan Hospital Center, NY 10029. in Pediatrics 1989 Sep;84(3):522-30 (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract) "Frequent all-night cosleeping was also significantly associated with sleep problems. |
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