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cribs

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

by phdinparenting on 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.
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Would you satisfy my curiosity? Transition from crib to big kid bed

by phdinparenting on 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 prescriptive, [...]

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Book Review: The No-Cry Nap Solution (by Elizabeth Pantley)

by phdinparenting on December 28, 2008

I should preface this by saying that I own and have read many of Elizabeth Pantley’s other No-Cry books. As many of my readers know, I am supportive of a no-cry approach, so when I was given the opportunity to read and review the No-Cry Nap Solution on my blog, it seemed like a natural [...]

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Safe or unsafe?

by phdinparenting on November 29, 2008

I’m starting to get annoyed at Health Canada (HC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) assessments that certain things are safe or unsafe for our infants or for the public at large. Both HC and the FDA say that trace amounts of melamine in infant formula is safe. The FDA contends that Bisphenol A [...]