Hi all I was very disturbed to read the UK newspaper report that Janice alerted us to. What concerns me is the blanket "no co-sleeping" approach of this coroner. It also concerns me that he has failed to acknowledge the deaths that have occurred when babies are alone in their cots. I am also surprised that he has not considered safe co-sleeping practices. When such seemingly powerful people make such blanket statements it highlights to me that some how we need to have powerful safe-co-sleeping advocates who can get the message out at least as loudly. We need balanced, choice and mother-empowerment statements so that mothers can make safe informed choices for herself. Surely this should be the right of every mother for all aspects of her parenting. Kind regards Ruth Fiedler Australia *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html