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Kathleen Bruce <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 24 Mar 1995 11:03:56 -0500
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>Don't you think that the co-sleeping issue is less of a SIDS (in the mind of
>the public - a good excuse to make babies go into their own beds) concern and
>more of a "this is a terrible habit" because "babies need to be independent"
>and "parents need their freedom" (read:  sex)?  It is another way for parents
>to withdraw from the child... One can then use SIDS as an excuse.  Now,
>notice the research that James McKenna did on co-sleeping hasn't hit the NY
>Times advocating it (though there was a little tiny article on the benefits
>of co-sleeping  in the Women's section of the Sunday Chicago Tribune awhile
>back).
>
>Jan, I sure do think that the point of including this reference was to
support the status quo ideas that co sleeping is a bad idea, ie makes child
dependent, invades parents "privacy" etc.  Scare tactics? Perhaps.

I would like to see copies of all research involved...I also think that I
could benefit from a crash course in statistics, which I only GLANCED over
in nursing school, did NOTHING with in college as a math major, and which I
sorely NEED to know now to critically read studies. :-/

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Kathleen B. Bruce RN, BSN, IBCLC
Williston, Vermont USA
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