FW: Cosleeping

[Tania & Simon]

Hi Janelle   there is an interesting article on Co-sleeping and SIDS on http://www.littlekoala.com/familybed.html   Funny enough I am actually doing an assignment on the benefits of Co-sleeping. James McKenna gives good feedback on an article by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)   Hope this helps..     Tania Doula and Childbirth Educater in Training. SINGAPORE -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Janelle & Lyndon Webb Sent: Tuesday, 11 June 2002 9:16 To: ozmidwifery Subject: Cosleeping All the sharing on the list about the wonderful benefits of cosleeping has stirred my conscience. I have not had children, but can see that this is a very natural thing to do. However, the is a big SIDS prevention push at the hospital where I work, and one of the big no, nos is cosleeping. One of the paeds is on the SIDS committee and apparently there where two cases in our area last year, two cases too many. We have been asked to get parents to sign a form stating that they have received the information on safe sleeping, including the information that cosleeping is not recommended. A midwives, many of us feel uncomfortable with telling mothers that they must not sleep with their babies, and in my practice I was beginning to encourage more and more mothers to "kanga cuddle" their babies and have a snooze together in the days following the birth. Especially if they were having feeding issues. I do know however, that there are also midwives that if they find a mother and baby asleep in bed together, will remove the baby from the bed!   I know that there is also alternative research on cosleeping which I should try and track down, but are there any thoughts from the wise women of this list as to how to approach the current recommendations on SIDS?