In a message dated 2/6/1 1:25:33 PM,  Loretta H from Neptune Bch FL writes:

<< In response to baby sleeping habits:  my husband "can't sleep" when I'm not
next to him at night.  He keeps a hand or foot, etc. touching me all night.
Why do we not give our babies the same right???>>

good point.

I sometimes say to parents:

"most of *us* do not sleep alone, many of *us* do not like to sleep alone,
yet we expect a helpless baby to do so............."

Debbie Tobin
RN BSN IBCLC LCCE
Springfield, Virginia USA
In the suburbs outside the Washington DC beltway
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Jacksonville native who used to hitchhike to the Neptune area beaches as a
teenager (don't tell my kids)

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