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Three in a Bed : The Benefits of Sharing Your Bed With Your Baby by Deborah Jackson
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Deborah Jackson Edition: Paperback Published: 1999-09-18 ISBN: 158234051X Number of pages: 312 Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Book Reviews of Three in a Bed : The Benefits of Sharing Your Bed With Your BabyBook Review: Unusually well-researched book on baby issues Summary: 5 StarsI see from many of the less than stellar reviews here that people are looking for practical guides to help them get their baby to sleep. While this book does offer very practical advice in one of its final chapters, the whole approach of this writer is to stress that you do what feels right for you and your child rather than follow any prescriptions.
I am currently three months pregnant and this is the third baby-related book I've read. The first two gave me a humorous/cutesy introduction to pregnancy and I was ready to move on to something more science and research-based. While this book isn't about the same topic, I would conclude that most other baby books are written in a very populist style so the people who gave negative reviews about this book here are taken aback by this writer's reliance on research to bring her points across.
I think it is the duty of every future parent to learn of the parenting methods out there and decide for themselves what is best for their baby and their way of life. The next book I'm reading is called The New Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford, which advocates the complete opposite approach to what Three in a Bed is about: the former prescribes very strict discipline and turning your child into a little robot, while the latter is all about listening to your instincts and letting the child's needs dictate your parenting. I am deliberately reading both because I want to hear both sides. My heart tells me Three in a Bed is the best, because I slept with my parents when I was little and I still recall the feeling of extreme comfort and security that I had at the time.
Summary of Three in a Bed : The Benefits of Sharing Your Bed With Your BabyUntil relatively recently, babies weren't sent off to sleep alone in their cribs where they often cry themselves to sleep--only to wake, needing to be fed or comforted until they can fall asleep again. This book offers an alternative: taking your baby to bed with you. Drawing on up-to-date and startling new evidence, the author shows how babies who sleep with their parents benefit by getting virtually a full night's sleep. Three in a Bed also includes a fully revised chapter based on new research on the SIDS debate and includes practical information on safety in the bed, how to sustain your sex life, and how to deal with the moment when the baby leaves his parents' bed. The approached advocated in this book can change the life of any parent struggling with getting their baby to sleep through the night.
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