Recommendations by physician groups to avoid bedsharing among mothers and their babies are intended to reduce sleep-related infant deaths. |
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Attachment Parenting has made a profound, positive change in me as a father and as a person. |
Sleeping on sofas increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths. |
Motherhood almost makes you lose yourself. Almost, because you find yourself with every touch of baby's soft skin, cheek to cheek. Almost, because you find yourself with every gaze held in those deep, pool-like eyes. |
Mainstream parenting media are asserting once again that the cry-it-out sleep paradigm is harmless to babies—this time in the form of a two-paragraph morsel as one of the “sleep myths” Parents magazine “sets straight” in “Rest Assured” (... read more |
Meaghan is angry. Her emotions have run the gamut over the past few months since her three-month-old baby died – from shock and disbelief to contemplating suicide because her pain has been too much to bear. |
Pediatricians and public health officials have long warned that “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with an infant, is unsafe. |
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