Salon.com > Peggy O http://www.salon.com Mon, 20 May 2013 18:29:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Get out of my bedroom! http://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/family_bed_rant/ http://www.salon.com/1999/09/30/family_bed_rant/#comments Thu, 30 Sep 1999 16:00:00 +0000 http://www.salon.com/life//feature/1999/09/30/family_bed_rant Usually I welcome the warnings of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. I like to know about dangerous products. But, not this time. This time the CPSC has come into my bedroom and I want them out. Since when is co-sleeping a product? Who has the authority to tell me what to do in the privacy of my own bedroom? What if this one-size-fits-all prescription just doesn't fit my family? Am I to be terrorized by the CPSC illustrations of strangled and smothered babies or am I going to stand up and say, "Not me." "Not this time." "No thanks."

Interestingly enough the CPSC gives little detail about the alleged deaths associated with babies in adult beds. Who are these parents who managed to smother their babies? I've never heard about any of them and I've been listening to parents for over 20 years. Is there any chance that these parents were heavily drugged or drunk when this happened? Most of the co-sleeping parents I talk to complain about not getting enough sleep, of having a heightened, not a diminished, sense of awareness when their baby is in bed with them.

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