Irresponsible Reporting...

About my parenting choices, another stupid study is conducted where some doctor comes along and makes blanket statements based on the results. I have already been harassed by people because of this study, and the reports of it provide few details about the circumstances under which the children died. . The doctor they interviewed on CBC Radio gave no information about co-sleeping safely, and that it can be done. Gee...based on this kind of logic, maybe noone should cross the street because people who do are x times more likely to get hit by a car....or go swimming because people who are near water are x times more likely to drown....and don't ever get into a car, because people who drive are x times more likely to get in a car accident. My point is, people will continue to cosleep no matter what some report comes up with, so why not help people to do it safely? Publishing this study in a newspaper and issuing blanket statemeents like this is so irresponsible IMHO. I am really rambling right now, sorry to anyone who actually read this. .

I am still mad about this...The doctor that was interviewed on "As it Happens", a news-radio interview show stated that children who died as a result of getting suffocated by couch cushions were considered to be among co-sleepers....he also said " as a reponsible Pediatrician I cannot reccomend people sleep with their children" Well then he shouldn't reccomend a lot of things children do I suppose, like play at a playground, because the risk of a fall or a head injury killing a child is much greater in these circumstances, or riding a bike for goodness sakes, we might as well do a study on that one too for that matter.................oh I am so irritated by the media and thier responses to studies like this I am hardly coherent. Sorry again for rambling

I, too, am fuming after seeing this story air on our nightly news. First of all, the study WAS IN FACT FUNDED BY THE CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION. Here is a link to the abstract. Note the authors and their affiliations:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

So, I did a search on Dr. James S. Kemp and he has authored several papers against cosleeping. Check out this one:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract

He has also had published a comment in response to an article in Pediatrics by James McKenna. Unfortunately, I can't access that issue right now, but I will look it up next time I'm at the biomedical library. I'm sure he will be making a comment in the negative, judging from his other articles.

I'm so mad!! Why do the media give so much coverage to stuff like this, just to scare the pants off parents and give us all more grief than we already get for cosleeping!

I wrote an email to my news station saying I wish they'd give more coverage to "the other side". It's so aggravating and frustrating!!