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Talk about separation of mother and
infant!! This is ridiculous.
It is not true unless the mother is
drugged
Liz
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?
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