The latest issue of Time, December 7, 2009, has a section called The Year in Health, A to Z.  B is for Babies and it says,

"When a baby has repeated problems falling asleep, Mom and Dad may need to
show some tough love.  Lingering with cranky babies too long or bringing
them into the parents' bedroom can make them likelier to become poor
sleepers, according to psychologist Jodi Mindell, who gathered data on
nearly 30,000 kids up to 3 years old in 17 countries.  "If you're rocked to
sleep at bedtime, you're going to need that every time you wake up," she
notes.  Her advice:  have children fall asleep 3 ft. away.  "If they're
slightly separated, they sleep much better," she says."

Here's a link to the online Time:
http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1942543_1942451_1942412,00.html

It's just valuable to be aware of article, and for those interested in responding, it would be good to email Time, so they might be printed next week. Send an email: [log in to unmask]  
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There are useful articles linked on the Attachment Parenting International web pages with quotes and research to counteract the viewpoint in the above article: http://attachmentparenting.org/parentingtopics/babysleepstrategies.php, including: 
Dr. Bill Sears - 8 Infant Sleep Facts Every Parent Should Know
Dr. James McKenna - Cosleeping and Biological Imperatives: Why Human Babies Do Not and Should Not Sleep Alone
Dr. James McKenna and Thomas McDade - Why Babies Should Never Sleep Alone.
And soon, the responses by many to Time magazine.

Responses can also be mailed to:
TIME Magazine Letters	
Time & Life Building
New York, N.Y.  10020
“Letters should include the writer’s full name, address and home telephone and may be edited for purposes of clarity and space.”
 
You can read more about the research quoted in the article at http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1904288,00.html.

Please join many in the API and LLL communities, Dr. McKenna, Jan Hunt, and many others who are responding to this unfortunate perspective. Thank you. If you would like to share your letter with API to show our collective response, you can send it to me at [log in to unmask] You can use this email to contact me with any questions offline too.

Sincerely,
Samantha Gray, LLL Leader
API

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