This comic is related to this musing:co-sleeping!

Hathor: “You say in this article that “co-sleeping is the practice of sleeping in the same bed, couch or chair with an infant.”"
other unseen person:”yep.”
Hathor: ” I co-sleep and I’ve never heard such an expanded definition…”
other unseen person: “it’s all in the proximity.”
Hathor: “Would you call sharing a roller-coaster car co-sleeping?”
other unseen person: “If they slept during it, yes.”
Hathor: “What about bunjee-jumping is bunjee-jumping with an infant ever ‘co-sleeping’?”
other unseen person:”if they’re snoozing certainly”
Hathor: “So you’ve basically co-opted the word ‘co-sleeping’ to sell some kind of agenda?”
other unseen person: “Well, cribs, um…I mean agendas don’t sell themselves”
Hathor:”I suppose the first one to write the wikipedia entry wins”

co-sleeping is the practice of mothers sleeping beside their infants to facilitate breastfeeding.

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Parents warned about sleeping with infants Thanks Kathleen (who said, “I’m 99.99% certain you’ve seen this, but just in case the Times was smart enough not to deliver a paper to you (or let you access their website) today, here it is.” hee hee) and Gurumama who says there was also a story on NPR.

There is already a wikipedia entry: Co-sleeping and since the article quotes Dr. Sears I thought this article would be useful: CO-SLEEPING: YES, NO, SOMETIMES? I found this website cosleeping.org and this article (a couple of years dated, but still applicable, I think) Cosleeping in the Media: They’re Still at It by Linda Palmer, DC and here it is 2008 and they’re still, still at it!

I think it’s important not to get bogged down in the ’safety’ issues, they’re trying to ‘normalize’ cribs by making us think that sleeping beside our baby is so dangerous that we need a 10 point safety system to be safe. The truth is if you are breastfeeding then you are hormonally ready to respond to your babies cues during the night and if you follow some reasonable common sense its as safe as anything else you do with your baby. With my tiny babies I carried them sleeping in the sling until I was ready to go to sleep and then slept with them on the crook of my arm. And that’s it, simple.

Love,
Heather

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This comic is related to this musing:77% of US babies are breastfed!

Paper says: 77% of all U.S. babies are breastfed
hathor: “Woohoo!!”
hathor: “77%! Wow. Of course this includes all the mothers who just suckle their baby once. But STILL! 77%”
hathor: “”These findings are based on information for 434 infants…” 434?!! Huh? JUST 434? Well, THAT’S hardly conclusive.’”
hathor: “sheesh. who’s going to clean up all this confetti?!”

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at least once! woohoo?
CDC says breast-feeding rates hit new high of 77 percent in US (thanks Gerry, et al!)

and I appreciated Lori F’s take on it:

So we are up to 77% of all mothers in the US letting their baby take at least 1 suckle at their breast. Its an all time high (or at least since we started recording - somehow I think in 1700 or say 1500 that the number of babies suckled was oh I don’t know 99% or so?

These #s are from the CDC. They are:
‘The new report is based on a comprehensive federal survey involving in-person interviews as well as physical examinations. The findings are based on information for 434 infants from the years 2005 and 2006.”

434 infants out of over 4 million born into the United States! Um, does that even include 1 infant per hospital maternity ward in the US? This number is not even remotely statistically significant. And as for in-person interviews - would that include people like my MIL who told us for over a year after our son was born she had nursed before REMEMBERING she never once put her child to her breast? Does it include the women who were planning to nurse when they got home from the hospital but were using formula until they got home? Self-reporting isn’t exactly a great method to use when we have such a wonderful ability to misremember.

Hear Hear! (let’s save the celebrating…but maybe just maybe we’re on the right track ;o)

xox,
Heather

This comic is related to this musing:Study Shows Formula Feeding Makes Kids Less Smart!

hathor: “Wow. this study just flat-out states that formula-fed children are…um…how to put this politely? less…um…not as intel…”
darling super hero: “ahem, you could just say breastfed babies are ’smarter’ like the article does…”
hathor: “and let these people use formula as the standard?! NEVER! I just need a better word for ‘less smart’”
baby:”Unintelligent? insipient? incapacious?”
darling super hero: “Kids! Bring mom the thesaurus, she’s at a loss for words! and a camera to document baby’s first words!”

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