Co-Sleeping Safely With Your Baby

This week many moms across the blogosphere became outraged by a new campaign from the City of Milwaukee Health Department to convince parents that co-sleeping is not safe. Not only is co-sleeping not safe, it is comparable to letting your baby sleep next to a sharp knife, or so they want parents to think. Of course [...]

The Emotional Benefits of a Family Bed

One of the key components of attachment parenting is the family bed. This refers to the sharing of sleeping space among family members, and particularly denotes a mother being physically close to her baby during the night. “Co-sleeping” refers to sleeping in close proximity to one’s baby or child, and could simply mean sleeping in [...]

The Benefits of Co-sleeping

Co-sleeping, also known as the family bed is a controversial topic today, but very quickly it is gaining supporters.  Co-sleeping is exactly what it sounds like it might be, sleeping together as a family in one bed, mom, dad and children.  Parents choose to co-sleep for a variety of reasons including ease of breastfeeding, a [...]