but I remember the nurse on call at my doc's office telling me *never* to sleep with my baby, that there were problems with their ribs being crushed by fathers, etc, etc, when she was sick and I was supposed to monitor her all night. The doctor at the ER was cool, though, young and a mom, and was like, "I know you might be trying to get her out of your bed but it would be a good idea to take her in at least for the next couple of days" -- essentially assumed I did cosleep.

You should have seen the campaign my mom tried to launch against cosleeping. I will never forget when she spent the night and A was about a week old, waking up at 6 or so to change a diaper and my mom going "I thought that baby was dead! I didn't hear a thing all night!" and everyone wonders why I was anxious.

I still feel weird when I am not sleeping with her.

As it always is. People that are not dependent on their families, who can live by themselves, who are rugged individuals, ...make better workers, they bring in more money, they are more likely to travel and have reduced connections.
In my opinion, co-sleeping with your children helps them to have strong and warm connections with their families, and results in their putting family before service to their government, etc...which the government/corporate America, does not like. So, it makes perfect sense to me that this government is fighting to retain the culture that serves it.

"Fundamentally the markswoman aims at herself"DT Suzuki

ugh. this article is ridiculous, and I agree that they're using scare tactics. what's even more bothersome is that the damn New York State Office of Children and Family Services provides that website! ridiculous. Dr. Sears writes a lot of good info on this very subject, and in fact, he and his nurse wife did some of their own research with one of their own children. I don't remember exactly what book I read this in, probably The Baby Book, but they found that their daughter's heart rate, pulse, pulse ox, etc were actually improved when she co-slept with them.
anyway, yes it's important to make informed decisions, but that site is plain rubbish.

"haikus are awesome. but sometimes they don't make sense. refrigerator."

yeah, it'd be pretty hard to co-sleep if you could never do it when you were, um, TIRED. it's a stupid article. the couch thing makes sense, but that's kind of a no-brainer.

all the research shows that mamas are actually more in tune with their babies while co-sleeping, and that LESS babies suffocate or die of SIDS while their mamas are sleeping with them than babies who sleep alone!!