I have to say that I am a bit disconcerted by the anecdotal evidence being
presented in support of waterbeds.  Just because one or a number of people
have used waterbeds while sleeping with a baby, this does *not* make it
okay.  It makes you lucky.  Note I am not flaming or blaming!  I just don't
like the unscientific nature of anecdotes.

We get very offended when this sort of thinking is presented to sabotage
breastfeeding:  "I fed all my kids formula and they turned out okay."

I guess if you're the practitioner advising parents, you could go over the
ways in which they could try to make co-sleeping safer in a water bed, and
the anecdotes presented here would be helpful in that regard.  But it is
uncomfortable to see us decrying the unscientific approach when it *hurts*
breastfeeding, and accepting that very same approach when we see it as
supportive of breastfeeding.

Mary Renard, RN, BSN, IBCLC
stubborn scientist
Vienna Virginia  USA

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