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Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping


by James J. McKenna

List Price: $14.95
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Sales Rank: 33503
Studio: Platypus Media
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: January 01, 2007
Publisher: Platypus Media


EDITORIAL REVIEWS

Product Description
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.


CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 10 reviews)

Great for beginning co-sleepers - convincing your spouse or relative  
Being a 'science person' I loved reading about Dr. McKenna's research into co-sleeping relationships. Lots of information about why it is so good for your child to co-sleep and how for most people throughout history, co-sleeping was not a choice but assumed. As my daughter is already 14 mos old this book didn't give me any great insights, just confirmed with research what I have suspected based on my own experiences. I wish I had read it when she was younger - it would have saved me the painful week where we tried to transition my daughter back to her own room when it was suggested to us that she would sleep better by herself. She sleeps best next to me - cozy family bed.
June 03, 2008

Sleeping with Your Baby  
Wonderful and informative.
I would highly recommend this book to the professional and lay person alike.
It has the latest research and information.
References are great!
March 01, 2008

One of the Best Parenting Books I have ever read!!  
This is one of the best parenting books I have read. This book helps you make parenting decisions that can reduce your child's risk of dying of SIDS. Every parent needs to read this book. It is not based on someone's opinion that co-sleeping "feels right" it is based on real scientific research!! Dr. James McKenna is one of the top sleep researchers in infant sleep. It isn't just about sleeping with a baby in your bed, it is about sleeping with your baby very close to you - weather in a crib, co-sleeper, or bassinet. It also includes a lot of info on how breastfed infants also have a reduction of SIDS. And also explains who should not co-sleep with their baby -- such as parents who smoke.
January 25, 2008

A seminal publication that should be read by every parent with an infant.  
Along with informed and informative contributions by William Sears, Meredith Small, and Peter Fleming, "Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping" by James J. McKenna (Director of the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep laboratory, University of Notre Dame) is an instructional and safety guide for parents who sleep with their baby in their bed whether the practice is a nightly routine or an occasional event. "Sleeping With Your Baby" counters the popular notion that sleeping with an infant is dangerous to that child, and even morally suspect. Readers will find cogent and documented explanations for the potential benefits of cosleeping, how to minimize any hazards or risk factors, and just when, why, and how a parent should sleep with a baby. A very strongly recommended addition to personal and community library Parenting Studies reference collections, "Sleeping With Your Baby" is a seminal publication that should be read by every parent with an infant.
July 10, 2007

Not very helpful or worth the $$  
First off, I believe in co-sleeping. I bought this book hoping for more information about co-sleeping as we prepare to welcome our second child to the family bed concept. I found NO substantial information in this book that hadn't been found in other resources already (Sears "The Baby Book", for instance).

Basically, this is a one-hour read that will allow people already committed to co-sleeping to pat themselves on the back. *Maybe* someone who knows *nothing at all* about cosleeping could learn something. But I'd recommend spending a little more money and getting a more encompassing resource for your library, rather than wasting shelf space on this well-intentioned, yet uninspiring read.
June 26, 2007


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