Children in Our Beds

On Facebook’s Circle of Moms, there was recently a heated discussion on co-sleeping. I am still amazed by the number of people who think that sleeping with your children increases the risk of SIDS. They hear it once from someone they trust, convince themselves that their personal experience is the only experience, and their mind is shut unless something drastic happens to open it.

We are co-sleepers.  There is no room in our bedroom for a family bed, but we have baby Gabriel sleep with us (the girls are right across the hall – and one of them winds up in our bed every so often, and I end up squashed between too many bodies).

So I’ve decided to put together a co-sleeping section in the Conscious Woman resources. As I work on this, I enjoyed coming across this very funny sketch with Dylan Moran. The last couple of minutes is an hysterical commentary on children in our beds.  Enjoy!

Epidurals and Breastfeeding

A slide from Sarah Buckley’s course entitled Epidurals: Impact on Mother and Baby:

At the end of her What Would Mammals Do? presentation, the internationally renowned lactation consultant Diane Wiessinger stated: “For the past 30 years, I’ve been looking at the wrong end of the mother!”.   Here’s what Diane had to say after participating in Sarah Buckley’s class on epidurals:  “I’m an IBCLC.  But I’m more and more in awe of the effect the birth has on breastfeeding, bonding, and the future well-being of both mothers and babies.  Sarah Buckley is presenting a knock-your-socks-off 6-part series on the effect of birth interventions.  I’m oh-so-glad I’m seeing them all.  The one on epidurals gives us the science behind our suspicions.”

We would make so much more progress on both the birth and lactation fronts if we worked together.  What will it take?