Here's what Ferber said:

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin


>New Yorker  Nov. 8 1999 vol. 75 #33 p64
>Sleeping with the Baby
>
>Interviewer's question:
>" But it says here in your book that although taking your child into bed
>with you for a night if he is ill or very upset about something, for the
>most part this is not a good idea."
>
>Ferber:
>"I wish I hadn't written those sentences.  That came out of some of the
>existing literature.  It is a blanket statement that is just not right.
>There's plenty examples of co-sleeping where it works out just fine.  My
>feeling now is that children can sleep with or without their parents.  What
>is realy important is that the parents work out what they want to do."
>
>On the whole, the article is very pro- BF.
>
>
>Joanne McCrory
>
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