Dear Friends:
    I highly recommend listening to this hour with  James McKenna, 
particularly if you a practitioner in the USA.  You can  access this lecture at
    _http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=14204_ 
(http://newsinfo.nd.edu/content.cfm?topicid=14204) 
    He talks about his own journey into the realm of  human infant sleep; his 
2-week old baby had colic (the result of his wife  drinking cow's milk so 
that she would make good milk for their baby). He  observed his baby settle down 
when Dr. McKenna lay down next to his son. As he  was already a primate 
researcher, Dr. McKenna had the educational foundation to  take the next step and 
explore the realm of bedsharing and co-sleeping.
    He talks about how the Western world, particularly  the States, has made 
decisions based on a moral, rather than scientific basis.  He talks about 
SIDS, how it was a "problem to be solved" when babies slept in  cribs, but how it 
is a practice to be stamped out when babies are in adult  beds.
    It is a fabulous lecture. I am eager to see him  (and Helen Ball and 
Linda Smith) at the International Breastfeeding and Human  Lactation conference in 
Orlando, Florida, January 2006. They are doing  a 3-hour presentation about 
infant sleep. 
    You can find out more about that conference at _www.healthychildren.cc_ 
(http://www.healthychildren.cc) 
    (Disclaimer: I get nothing by recommending this  lecture or this 
conference except the joy of sharing great information with  3,000+ of my dear 
colleagues.)
    warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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