I HATE reading these articles about babies dying from co-sleeping! In this Milwaukee family, in the article below, there have been three "co-sleeping deaths"-obviously this is a special case of incompetent sickos, but still... You give co-sleeping a BAD name! Never mind how drunk these disgusting people are when they pass out next to their six day old, there will be reports about how co-sleeping is dangerous, and it ruins it for good parents who can benefit from it. I can't help but comment on this because co-sleeping is a wonderful thing. I am not afraid of defending co-sleeping with your child. I have always been the type of person who could function off of little to no sleep, but caring for a newborn is a different story.
In my case, I was in labor for 16 hours before I was finally given the recommendation to have a c-section. It is a major abdominal surgery, bottom line, and labor is hell (It is different for everyone but I was not a big fan!). It is difficult to do ANYTHING after a c-section. They give you pain killers that, basically, make you feel dizzy enough to not think about the pain, but then you have a huge case of the stupids so you don't feel quite right with taking care of a baby (hence why I didn't take them for long). It is hard enough to take care of a baby after recovering from childbirth without adding pain killers, and/or alcohol.
Now, I ask you, How the hell are you consuming alcohol six days after you have your baby??? Even without a c-section! I hope to God she wasn't nursing, although the kind of selfish, sick woman that would drink and pass out on a couch next to her baby I can't imagine troubling herself with nursing. In the first couple weeks of bringing a baby home who is getting enough sleep to nurse a hangover anyway?
Jules and I slept with Lucia because we slept better not getting up in the middle of the night (He had to work early in the morning and worked long hours and we don't have family in
Cd'A so I was on my own). She didn't wake up in the middle of the night when she was in our bed (five hours straight through on average). When she woke up, she would nurse and fall back asleep. Now, I have to say, had I planned on bottle feeding though Lucia may have slept longer hours (formula, I guess, has that effect). If she was sleeping on her own for longer hours I may have just put her in her crib and not worried about it, but that was not the case, and we were all happier, healthier, and better rested for our decision.
If you are going to sleep next to a teeny, tiny baby you cannot be DRUNK though!!!! What was this woman thinking, especially after she and her mother had already killed two of her kids. Oh, I forgot to mention, her mother smothered another of her babies herself. Both are unfit for parenting and should be in jail. You do not smother that many babies on accident. I've seen t.v. shows about women like this, and they are gross, obese, ignorant, trashy drunks that do not deserve to have children. Lock this b---- up!
These children DID NOT die from co-sleeping! They died because of careless stupidity.
http://www.startribune.com/local/69071407.html
