Safe Infant Sleep Quotes

“Breastsleeping is a term recently coined by myself and my colleague, Dr. Lee T. Gettler. It refers to a specific kind of bedsharing between a breastfeeding mother and infant, occurring in an environment free from proven risk factors. It is the safest form of bedsharing, practiced worldwide for all of human history.”
― James J. McKenna, Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions

“Getting your child to sleep becomes such a blinding obsession, I myself would often lose sight of the bigger picture: What is the actual goal here? Constant sleep? No awake time? Zero consciousness? I mean, we must accept that at some point babies have to be awake. They didn’t come to the planet just to sleep. “Are we determined to get them asleep just so we can get a taste of what life was like before we had kids? Because if we are, then tell me again—why did we have a kid? Just to lie there and look soft and fuzzy? We could have just gotten, say, a peach. A St. Bernard. A narcoleptic houseguest. Or why not just get a huge chenille bathrobe? Chenille bathrobes are fuzzy and just lie there—why don’t we just get us one of those and name it Michael?”
― James J. McKenna, Safe Infant Sleep: Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions