Co-sleeping

Musical Beds: Helping Everyone Get a Good Night’s Rest

January 12, 2012




We have one rule when it comes to sleep in our house. Everyone needs to sleep and everyone deserves to be comfortable when they are sleeping. Where people sleep or how often that changes, isn’t really relevant as long as everyone is able to sleep comfortably. Sounds idyllic, you might say. But how do you [...]

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Fun with Analogies: Co-Sleeping and Knives, Car Travel and Guns

November 14, 2011




The City of Milwaukee Health Department wants to tell you that co-sleeping is like letting your baby sleep with a sharp knife . They are sharing this news via two new posters (one with a black baby one with a white baby) that tell parents that babies can die when sleeping in adult beds and [...]

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No Cry It Out: 3 Years Later

July 5, 2011




Three years ago today, I wrote what has become the most viewed and the most popular post on this blog. I wrote the post, Cry it Out (CIO): 10 Reasons Why it is Not for Us, after years as a message board moderator where we would post lists and lists of links over and over [...]

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The History of Sleep Training in Germany

May 9, 2011




We’ve all heard people say that babies need to be taught to sleep through the night and that it is necessary to let them cry it out to achieve this. However, the Western child rearing practices of having babies sleep in separate beds (often in separate rooms) and ignoring their cries at night has not [...]

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Emotional Availability and Infant Sleep

August 17, 2010




Over the past few days, several people notified me about a Globe and Mail article called Coddle or let the kid cry? New research awakens the sleep-training debate with a header that read: “While many moms and dads reluctantly allow their infant to ‘cry it out,’ some experts now say the practice can cause real [...]

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Fox News Video on Bed Sharing

May 5, 2010




This video from Fox News that my friend Allie at No Time for Flash Cards sent me a link to is a must watch (never thought I’d say that!): There is so much I want to say about this video, yet I don’t know where to begin. So I’ll let you all start. Discuss…

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A different kind of baby-led weaning

March 1, 2010




When people talk about baby-led weaning, they are usually referring to the method of introducing solid food that involves introducing finger foods and allowing the baby to decide what and how much to eat, rather than the parents spoon feeding baby food. Over time, feedings at the breast are gradually replaced with self-feeding of the [...]

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Letter to the editor in response to: “Co-sleeping fears prevented call for parents to abandon defective cribs”

November 27, 2009




Dear Editor, I was dismayed but unfortunately not shocked by Sarah Schmidt’s article Co-sleeping fears prevented call for parents to abandon defective cribs. Governments across North America, including the federal and some provincial governments in Canada,  have been waging an ongoing war against co-sleeping. Unfortunately, this is not based on sound science. It is important [...]

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Would you satisfy my curiosity? Transition from crib to big kid bed

November 24, 2009




In light of the massive crib recall, there were a lot of concerned parents on twitter today wondering where their baby should sleep while they wait who knows how long for the repair kit to make their crib safe again. As a non-crib user, I threw out a few suggestions to people (not intended as [...]

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A time to wean? Your opinion, others opinions and how to deal

July 11, 2009




Image credit: teresia on flickr I received an e-mail from a reader who is feeling alone and criticized due to her parenting choices. Unfortunately, she is not alone in feeling that way. A lot of people do. Here is her story: I am a 23 year old mom, with a 2 1/2 year old son. [...]

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