Comments on: Links to Articles on Co-Sleeping by James McKenna, PhD http://ellenrebekah.com/255 Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:01:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rebekah http://ellenrebekah.com/255/comment-page-1#comment-5146 Rebekah Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:41:22 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/255#comment-5146 These links were actually to me through various channels (friends of my mother) in response to that NPR program. Our experience has absolutely been a positive one! I loved sleeping next to Sara Ellen as an infant. I always knew how she was, if she needed to be nursed or held. I felt secure as a new mother knowing I could put my hand right on her chest to check her breathing. Also in her infancy she would wake up around 4 or 6am and we'd have family time for a bit, then get more sleep. Even now, as we don't go on a regulated schedule, we wake up together usually mostly rested and pretty happy. These links were actually to me through various channels (friends of my mother) in response to that NPR program.

Our experience has absolutely been a positive one! I loved sleeping next to Sara Ellen as an infant. I always knew how she was, if she needed to be nursed or held. I felt secure as a new mother knowing I could put my hand right on her chest to check her breathing. Also in her infancy she would wake up around 4 or 6am and we’d have family time for a bit, then get more sleep. Even now, as we don’t go on a regulated schedule, we wake up together usually mostly rested and pretty happy.

]]> By: Tim http://ellenrebekah.com/255/comment-page-1#comment-5144 Tim Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:39:26 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/255#comment-5144 Here's a link to the NPR story so you can listen: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12262817. And here's the CPSC report that the first link rebuts (I think): http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/PRHTML99/99175.html. Here’s a link to the NPR story so you can listen: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12262817. And here’s the CPSC report that the first link rebuts (I think): http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PREREL/PRHTML99/99175.html.

]]> By: Allison S-K http://ellenrebekah.com/255/comment-page-1#comment-5143 Allison S-K Mon, 30 Jul 2007 16:25:31 +0000 http://ellenrebekah.com/255#comment-5143 Listening to NPR last week, I caught the tail end of an article on the dangers of co-sleeping, with some public health commissioner in Texas. And I was appalled that NPR would not follow that up with an interview on the benefits of co-sleeping, or at least a rebuttal to the guy's statement that co-sleeping is unsafe and everyone should have a crib for babies (there were several deaths there last week, which is what prompted the interview). Everything that I've read--including these links, very interesting--suggests that co-sleeping is a much healthier and happier lifestyle choice for both parents and baby (at least until your little one gets big enough to hurt when she kicks!) Has your experience been a positive one? Listening to NPR last week, I caught the tail end of an article on the dangers of co-sleeping, with some public health commissioner in Texas. And I was appalled that NPR would not follow that up with an interview on the benefits of co-sleeping, or at least a rebuttal to the guy’s statement that co-sleeping is unsafe and everyone should have a crib for babies (there were several deaths there last week, which is what prompted the interview). Everything that I’ve read–including these links, very interesting–suggests that co-sleeping is a much healthier and happier lifestyle choice for both parents and baby (at least until your little one gets big enough to hurt when she kicks!) Has your experience been a positive one?

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