Safe Infant Sleep
Expert Answers to Your Cosleeping Questions

I was very torn between giving this book three and four stars. In the end, I gave it four because I think this is an important conversation that not enough medical professionals are having, so I appreciate what Dr. McKenna is trying to do. I would recommend this to someone who is already cosleeping......more

Pay special attention to the last chapter. “Putting the blame for chaotic cosleeping deaths on bedsharing itself, rather than on the conditions and diverse circumstances that make the practice safe for some subgroups, but not for others, is morally and scientifically wrong.”......more

Evidence-based literature that provides insightful tips to mothers who wish to breastfeed and co-sleep successfully. A great read for Westernized parents who feel like they’re the minority when it comes to their co-sleeping arrangements with their infants. Provides page after page of evidence-based......more

This isn’t so much a sleep guide as it is a history of bed sharing and how flawed research and Western beliefs about children and independence have led to a stigma against it. Dr. McKenna debunks a lot of the myths of the dangers of bed sharing and explains through research and explanation of biolog......more

Lots of interesting information here but the book is a bit polemical in tone and I think in general I prefer the parenting books that gently emphasize the importance of making decisions that are best for the well-being of the family, not just for the baby. From what I’ve read it sounds like some mot......more