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Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping
Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide is your guide to understanding how to make nighttimes with your baby safe, fun and relaxing! Written by James McKenna, the world's authority on co-sleeping.
Paperback, 128 pages
Published
May 15th 2007
by Platypus Media
(first published January 1st 2007)
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I liked that this book had very clear safety guidelines for co-sleeping, including illustrated do's and don'ts. I felt that there was an even-handed approach, advocating room-sharing vs. bed-sharing where risk factors exist. And they did a fine job of evaluating the recommendations against co-sleeping and then pointing out where more data needed to be studied. Appendix III (the AAP SIDS statement) and Appendix IV through VII (the responses from individuals/organizations who disagreed with the AA...more
Jan 06, 2012
Jenna
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This book was so reassuring, especially since co-sleeping just happened to us. Before Brooke was born we planned on having her sleep by us in the very beginning, but we never imagined that she would stay. The book made me feel really confident about our decision to keep her by us at night, rather than get her into her own room...or crib for that matter. It was nice to gain that confidence since our culture is not supportive of sleeping with your baby and it is seen as a problem. It was fascinati...more
Reading The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding totally changed the way I parent, and this book, Sleeping with Your Baby helped me feel great about bedsharing, something that our culture, media, and even the AAP warns against. My thought is that if something feels good and natural and has worked throughout the course of human evolution, it is probably a good thing to do on many levels, as long as the parents educate themselves and do it safely. This book had a lot of "good science," and is a helpful an...more
This book is a must-read for those interested in co-sleeping, but that being said, it's not a must-buy or must-have. Borrow a copy from a friend or get it from the library.
Quick read (1 day). Gives guidelines and history of co-sleeping and bed-sharing, with tips on how to do it safely.
See also his websites:
http://www.naturalchild.org/james_mck...
http://www.cosleeping.org/
http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/faq.html
Quick read (1 day). Gives guidelines and history of co-sleeping and bed-sharing, with tips on how to do it safely.
See also his websites:
http://www.naturalchild.org/james_mck...
http://www.cosleeping.org/
http://www.nd.edu/~jmckenn1/lab/faq.html
I felt it was a little repetitive, but it had a lot of interesting facts about co-sleeping/bed sharing. I learned a lot and had all my suspicions and beliefs about the dangers of "crying it out" and importance of bed sharing confirmed. I definitely recommend all new mommies and daddies read this before they have their baby so that they can start co-sleeping from day one guilt-free. Everyone gets more sleep!
James McKenna is a wonderful researcher, the first to study the sleep of mothers and infants together. He has published many peer-reviewed articles on the benefits of co-sleeping, as well as his book (which is more aimed at a general audience).
This is a pro co sleeping guide to all the benefits of sleeping with your baby, how to do so safely and when not to. This book made me feel everything I already felt was right indeed was.
Good book. Quick and easy to follow. Would recommend balancing it with some books by Sears. This is the first time I read some of the different opinions on placement of the bed in the room.
Really informational. It helped me and my husband clarify our own opinions about co-sleeping and come up with some ideas about what to do when the time comes.
Great research!
Easy to read!
Helped me to see that what I am doing for my son is incredibly healthy and has been done for ages, despite my many critics.
Easy to read!
Helped me to see that what I am doing for my son is incredibly healthy and has been done for ages, despite my many critics.
I first read this book when I was pregnant with my son. We followed the guidelines for safe co-sleeping and he is a bright, energetic toddler.
Really simple book. Good practical do's and don'ts, but nothing too suprising. Draws attention to the fact that much of current Western practice is based on cultural preferences and assumptions rather than research, and that the media has overstated the dangers of cosleeping, especially considering it is predominant practice in much of the world.
Nothing I did not already know. Concise, general info for those new to co-sleeping concepts. Ones by Doctor Sears are more in depth, though.
We did co-sleeping for the first couple of weeks, and room sharing for 5 months. This book was a helpful quick guide.
was hoping for more practical advice on the family bed vs. an essay on the reasons why.
ins and outs of co-sleeping, well written, accessible and good research
Good reference, super quick read. I give it three stars only because I was expecting more content, or more secrets that aren't already easily extracted from other parenting books I'm reading.
I guess it's just reassuring to have one book on my shelf that's an authority on the subject, though. James McKenna truly is an amazing researcher and pioneer for infant sleep health!
I guess it's just reassuring to have one book on my shelf that's an authority on the subject, though. James McKenna truly is an amazing researcher and pioneer for infant sleep health!
While I don't have any children yet I picked up this book to hopefull learn more about co-sleeping as this is something that I will be doing when I become a parent.
I found the book very simply written and honestly did not learn anything that I had not already known. What I did find in the book I feel is common sense to me but I can see how someone who has never heard of bed sharing would learn a great deal from this book.
I found the book very simply written and honestly did not learn anything that I had not already known. What I did find in the book I feel is common sense to me but I can see how someone who has never heard of bed sharing would learn a great deal from this book.
If you are considering co-sleeping (or bedsharing), but are hesitant, this books tells you what to do, and what not to do. It is filled with practical tips and answers to frequently asked questions, and is great for parents wanting to know how to co-sleep safely. I was only disappointed that it merely discussed the potential benefits of co-sleeping cursorily.
What a great book. It is nice to read the positive & scientific facts behind cosleeping. McKenna is an anthropologist & has a mom/baby sleep research lab at Notre Dame. Cosleeping has many benefits for mom & baby esp for breastfeeding, attachment & safety. It was quick & easy to read too!
Good, consise read about the benefits (and cautions) of co-sleeping -- a term which includes bed-sharing and simply having the baby sleep in your bedroom on a separate surface (i.e. crib, bassinet, co-sleeper).
due to my having gotten this from a library, I didn't get the read as much as I wanted in the time I had allotted. What I read was great, though, and very helpful.
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Dr. McKenna is the author of Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping .
He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology, specializing in the evolution of human parenting systems and human development. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for two years...more
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He received his undergraduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Anthropology and his Ph.D. from the University of Oregon, also in Anthropology, specializing in the evolution of human parenting systems and human development. He taught at the University of California at Berkeley for two years...more
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