Dear Susan Burger:

I completely agree with you, and have posted about this in various  places
since January (after hearing Drs. Helen Ball and Barbara  Morrison tell us even
more about sleeping arrangements and skin to  skin...at the Orlando 2008
International Conference), including at my  workplace in a health department.

Of course. You can abstain if you want. That will prevent  STD/pregnancy/etc.
And if you want to have sex (and most people will want to  have sex because
that is hard-wired human behavior, linked to so much pleasure  as to be
difficult to resist), have it in all these different ways that are  safe. Use these
condoms.

Sure, use a crib. Put the baby in Siberia. That will be fine if you follow
all at least 7 guidelines for using a crib safely. Or bring baby to bed if you
want..........unless you smoke/
drunk/stoned/couch/waterbed....yadaadaada..........And baby sleeping next to mum  is hard-wired. Milk release makes her
sleepy; milk ingestion makes baby sleepy.

You have choices.

Cars are dangerous too. We use approved infant seats to move our babies
safely in cars. So use a safe sleep surface if baby is in bed with you.

Or use a side-car sleeping arrangement, such as an "Arm's Reach  Co-Sleeper".

Lots of choices; make them safely.

Looking for the hundredth monkey................:-)

warmly,



Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania USA
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