>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."

Joanne, Thank you for sending this post.  WOW!! Can you imagine?  If he can
change his mind, anyone can. I admire him for publically reversing his
position.  Maybe being on so many panels with James McKenna taught him
something.  I hope someone tells James McKenna about this article.

Now, if Ferber could just put out a recall on all of his books--even the
ones that accidentally got misplaced in bookstores.

Pat Gima, IBCLC
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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