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> While I know that Japanese women  bedshare (futon-share?) with their babies, 
> I don't know what Arabic moms  do.  But both of those cultures prize family.
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> Why don't Americans?  
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I'm not sure if Arabic parents in general share sleep but I do know that 
they are VERY family oriented, and the fathers REALLY take a much larger 
role in the family than American fathers.  I know in the Muslim faith, 
mothers are asked in the Quran to breastfeed their babies for 2 years. 

Maybe Americans don't share sleep because maybe having enough rooms in 
your house was once a status symbol, so that everyone could get their 
own room and nobody HAD to share sleep.  I think of elderly patients 
telling me that they grew up with 12 kids in a house that was only 1000 
square feet... that sort of thing.

Liz Cammin, RN

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