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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
Anti Co-sleeping Campaign, vent!
So in Milwaukee this year there has been a ridiculous amount of infant deaths due to "co-sleeping". What irks me is that these pieces of trash are really giving co-sleeping a bad name. I watch the news daily and it never fails that the parents are obese, drunk, or on drugs. So now they have begun spray painting mattresses with different phrases against co-sleeping and hanging them up on the city streets, yes entire mattresses. I wont even go into what a stupid idea that is.....
As a mother who co-slept with both of my previous children up until they were 6 months old I take personal offense to this. I agree that co-sleeping is a HORRIBLE idea if you have been drinking, on drugs or if you are severely obese or even a very heavy sleeper. However, many families safely co-sleep and I'm sick of hearing how terrible it is every night on the news.
Also if these parents are in such poverty that they can't afford a crib, as many say, maybe they should go to the local planned parenthood and get on birth control, or better yet stop spreading their legs. Meanwhile innocent little babies are suffocating to death. The whole thing sickens me. Vent over.
Snuggling after a nap!
Claira 2 yrs and Sophia 11 months
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Re: Anti Co-sleeping Campaign, vent!
My state shows really horrific commercials where a mom is sleeping on a couch, and the dad comes in with a video camera to "capture the moment" and the mom wakes up and is holding a dead baby... It is hands down the worst thing I have seen on TV.
Granted I'm not for co-sleeping, but guess what, that just means that I don't do it, I don't care what anyone else does. I do think it's important for them to get the message out there about what does and doesn't make it safe, but outside of that, I think they go a little too far with the scare tactics. I think there is a much better way they could handle getting that information out.
HOLY CRAP! that is so horrible. we co-slept for 10m and it was a great experience for both us and DS. that is sad that people are so alarmist.
I think the well informed co sleepers won't be swayed by the campaign, whereas the really ignorant cosleepers will probably at least notice such a straighforward message. So, the campaign will probably serve its purpose quite nicely.
...and lol at poor people shouldn't be having sex, since they can't afford a crib.
I think the real problem is that people use "co-sleeping" as such a blanket term. In my mind, there are very different issues here. Co-sleeping properly can be very healthy for families, especially if you're nursing. We did it for a few months with Benjamin and I was actually sad to stop.
I just wish they wouldn't lump proper co-sleeping in with the other stuff. A mom or dad that passes out drunk with their baby on the couch is NOT co-sleeping. That's just being irresponsible. Totally different. But you can bet that someone on the news will toss the word "co-sleeping" out during the "shocking story".
I live in Milwaukee too...I have been in my own world lately and haven't watched the news, where did this happen? Craziness!
We co-sleep (even though, before I became a parent, that was the one thing I said I would NEVER do), but I sort of get the campaign. It's like telling parents that babies should only have formula or breastmilk up until a year. It's not that milk before a year will kill them, it's that some idiots out there would choose to use milk to save money on formula. They have to aim these things at the lowest common denominator.
Although, with all these crib recalls, I'm not sure where it IS totally safe to let your baby sleep these days.
Exactly.
We are a bedsharing family, we don't even own a crib, and we too get irritated at all the alarmist crap out there. To all my family, we are educated and aware, thanks for your concern. We don't need to hear snotty remarks like, "Well I guess there won't be anymore babies." or hear about "all those poor dead babies."
I would never do anything to harm DS, I am one of those safety paranoid Mamas and I bedshare. It's like sex, driving and consumption of alcohol--there's a safe way and a dangerous way.
Safe bedsharing guidelines.
It really pisses me off that these campaigns think people are too stupid to follow safe bedsharing guidelines, so they openly trash the practice. Meanwhile in countries all over the world it's totally normative for everyone in the family to sleep together.