News Roundup
MONEY. SHOW ME THE MONEY………….
This is open to anyone and everyone. So, um… - that means YOU.
Comment on any 451 Press site during the month of August and you could win! Three comments will be chosen at random to win a cash prize of $300, $200 or $100. The more you comment the more chances you have to win. So start reading and let those fingers fly.
News Roundup
Here’s an interesting article about pregnancy advice regarding alcohol consumption - it gives a nice perspective of how some Europeans regard the issue.
An article on Why Women Don’t Nurse Longer. A pretty standard article that lists all the usual reasons.
And great scott - here’s yet another article about co-sleeping. Confession time: These articles piss me off (is that language allowed here???). Sleeping with my children feels so right and natural - it boggles my mind how the “experts” declare it to be unsafe. Yes, have some common sense - don’t crowd your kid out with comforters and pillows, don’t go to bed drunk and if you are heavily overweight, don’t sleep with your children. But for the rest of us? Co-sleeping can go MILES in comforting parents AND babies. These days, I can’t even remember when Anjali wakes up. I don’t bother fumbling for my glasses to see the clock because that would be wasted effort. I roll over when she squawks, get her latched on and she begins nursing. At some point, I must pull her off because by the time the sun rises, she is no longer attached to my breast. And truly - I love waking up and seeing her little face furrowed in sleep. Precious. Simply precious. Also, for the record, my own doctor is 100% on board with co-sleeping and even admitted that she thinks parents should sleep with their children, but she would never push that opinion on her patients.
It makes me sad to think of how many parents are afraid to sleep with their own children because of articles such this.
breastfeeding, co-sleeping, cosleeping
My StumbleUpon Page
August 1st, 2007 at 8:02 pm
I can’t imagine not co-sleeping. How on earth does a nursing mother get any sleep with a newborn in a different bed?
August 1st, 2007 at 9:22 pm
When I was in the hospital, I had my son with me in my bed and drifted off at one point. He was certainly safe. But the nurse walked in and told me how unsafe it was for him to sleep with me, to never let the baby sleep in my bed and took him away and put him in the bassinet. Because I had a c-section, I couldn’t get out of the bed easily or quickly to attend to him when he began to cry. Plus the bassinets are so tall that even with it right next to me I couldn’t get him out safely. Being a first time mom I didn’t say anything to her but this next time if anybody gives me lip, I’m telling them to back off!
Like I’ve said before, I wasn’t able to co-sleep when we brought our son home. It was too uncomfortable and none of us got any rest until he went in his own bed. After that he was an excellent sleeper and it was never a problem getting up to nurse him and go back to sleep. We’ll have to see how #2 is with co-sleeping but if it doesn’t work then that’s ok. I think whatever works for each individual is just fine!
August 2nd, 2007 at 11:27 pm
Like the other commenter, I can’t imagine not co-sleeping. My youngest child will be 5 in November and he sleeps snuggled up to mama every night. Of course, this is made easier by the fact that my husband works graveyard shift. lol
I also nursed my last one for over two years and it was a wonderful experience. The only reason we quit when we did was because I was having my first cancer surgery.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
I guess it is a cultural difference, and I do believe it’s a personal choice (some babies might not do well with it) but everytime I hear people talking about how it’s gross and unnatural and unsafe it kind of pisses me off. Most of the world co-sleeps! I would still crawl into my parents’ bed once in a while till I was about 9 or 10, I guess. Everything is not sexual…my parents are a big source of stability and comfort in my life and occasionally snuggling up to them when I was young made me feel safe (I am talking of being 8-10 and consciously asking to sleep with them for about an hour if the door was open and the tv was on).