I hope that some of you in this group can help me with a question.  I teach
a class for staff members on Pediatric Age Related Training.  I teach
growth and development, social and psychological aspects, safety issues,
and clinical considerations for infants, toddlers, preschoolers, school-age
children, and adolescents.  My goal is to help the staff members to be more
family friendly in their health care settings.  I talk about attachment
parenting and how many families are choosing to raise their children by
breastfeeding, carrying their infants, and co-sleeping, etc.  We talked
about the CPSC study and how they, as patient advocates, can help make it
safe for babies to share sleep with their mothers or fathers when they are
inpatients.  (Even parents who don't sleep with their parents at home may
choose to under such a stressful situation as hospitalization.)  Most of my
class had never heard of attachment parenting.

I had questions from the class such as, "if the parents share sleep with
their children, where do the children nap?" and "how do they establish a
bedtime routine?"  "Where do they sleep if they are tired before their
parents go to bed as children need more sleep than adults?"  For my next
class, I would like to be able to give some educated answers.

My husband and I use slings when we can and I am still breastfeeding, but
sleeping with triplets is not something we are interested in doing.  They
co-sleep with each other in a room right next to ours, and come to our bed
occasionally for night waking.

Thanks in advance,
Anne Nans, RN, IBCLC
Woodbridge, VA
proudly breastfeeding 10 month old triplets

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