See my post last night.

The TV  had a man speaking live from Washington from the Consumer Products
Commission. Our Belinda from NCT made the point that mothers have taken
their babies into bed for 5 million years, that we should be looking at how
to ensure this practice is as safe as possible, not forbidding it (just as
we have tragedies when babies die in car accidents, and focus on making car
design and car use safer, not banning babies from travelling by car).


There was a horrible film of a dummy adult and a dummy baby (like a crash
test dummy scenario) in an adult bed, and the adult dummy was shown rolling
on to the baby's face.

The presenter asked the Washington man -  in a very silly way  - why men,
who do not breastfeed, felt they could tell mothers what to do about
co-sleeping.  The man said when his babies were small he *gave them a
bottle and put them back to sleep in their cribs*   Aggghhh ....and double
Aggghhhh  when the presenter said, 'well, there you go, the bottle's
easier'.

I think this story  will continue here, too.

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK

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