Co-sleeping misrepresentation

[Avalon]

Read this article through. I was furrowing my brow at the beginning, but it talks about the misrepresentation of 'clinical data' and the use of studies.

In summary - around half of sids deaths occue while 'co-sleeping', but majority of these were on the sofa, or where the parent have been drinking or drug taking. The other half die alone in their cots.

I wonder how many of those helathy babies died because they were no longer close to their mammas smells and heartbeat

The truth about sleeping with baby | Life and style | The Guardian

[morning pages]

I haven't read the article but had done some other reading, it's a pity they don't clarify this information isn't it? Terrible. However your assumption that a bubba may die because of being away from a parent is not useful either, in fact it could be quite damaging in the wrong ears.

[Avalon]

Fair enough - I thought it sounded a bit 'blunt' when I wrote it. It does sound very insensitive now that I look back on it! Definitely didnt mean any offence, no malice behind that comment. More of a follow-on about the being alone in a cot, rather than close to mums smells and heartbeat when they passed. So shouldnt have said 'because', rather 'when', or its sad that it can happen that way, or something similar... Obviously if they knew more causes of sids it wouldnt happen so often. Apologies.

[morning pages]

Yeah, I understand what you mean. we all say things that come out wrong sometimes...me more than I'd like! Thanks for writing back, I really appreciated that, takes guts, good on you.

[lcorteen]

What a shame the first paragraphs re-enforced the dogma that babies must sleep in cots. There would be many readers who would only read those first few paragraphs.

I also found it interesting to read that there were no clinical studies testing whether cosleeping improved breastfeeding relationships. Sigh.... if I ever win a gazillion dollars, I am going to give it to researchers who can investigate things that have no monetary benefit and orchestrate a multi million dollar advertising campaign for all the simple things I love that don't make much money for anyone - fruit n veg and wholefoods, fresh air, love & dancing, hugging, walking, sex, singing....imagine being bombarded by mass media telling us to enjoy the day, to take a few deep breaths, to eat slowly, to have a laugh with friends... rather than telling us that if we have matching furniture, a size 10 rear and pearly white teeth we will be happy!

Thanks for posting the article Maxine.

[Ama]

Oh Louise.... (sigh)!
I hear you luv!

[Nyree]

Well said, Louise!

Yep - another stupidly sensationalised headline that doesn't reflect the facts - le sigh!

[tigersmum]

Another who gives Louise the 2 thumbs up!!!
I found the entire article really badly written and edited. My tired/breastfeeding brain couldn't make head or tail of it one minute it was anti co-sleeping the next pro. Anybody who was reading in order to gain some helpful information would have given up after the first paragraph.

[ENR]

I can't say much for the article but I ended up reading the comments and most of them were nice to read.

[Emily33]

I couldn't read the article either... it didn't flow or make much sense... gave up after the first few paras.

Thought I'd post the following few links for those reading this thread who may be new to NP and/or cosleeping.

The world's number one sleep expert according to NP circles is Professor James McKenna. Here's his website at the Uni of Notre Dame where he has his Mother Baby Behavioralp Sleep Laboratory: Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. A lot of his articles are published here: Articles on Sleeping - The Natural Child Project