Rhoda wrote:
>1. Depending upon how the situation is presented to me I often work two
>short comments into the conversation around co-sleeping.  I love the quote
>from James McKenna that children need to sleep 'within arms reach of a
>sober adult'.

Thanks, Rhoda. I like that one. Another one I am fond of using a lot
when couselling mums is also from McKenna - 'We have Stone Age babies
born into a Space Age world'. I mention that our babies have no
concept of being safe in the next room of the house, etc. The
instinct they are born with is that if they are put down, then they
are at risk of being taken by a predator, or that they may have been
abandoned. So it is an inborn *need* to be in constant contact with a
parent at all times, and a baby doesn't feel 'right' if he/she is
not. The 'well-adapted' babies (this is also from McKenna I think)
are the ones who complain long and loud at being separated from their
mums.

>  I STRONGLY encourage everyone to read Dr McKenna's research and if you
>have a chance to hear him in person it is worth the time and money (as of
>course goes without saying about Kathleen D. too)

I second all that - I have done all three (without leaving
Australia!) and really benefitted! Thank you to the wonderful
speakers who take the trouble to visit us in Australia. (Now looking
forward to Kathryn Dewey and Pamela Morrison in May.)
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Joy Anderson B.Sc. Dip.Ed. Grad.Dip.Med.Tech. IBCLC
Nursing Mothers' Association of Australia Breastfeeding Counsellor
Perth, Western Australia.   mailto:[log in to unmask]
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