Safer Bed Sharing
Birthful
Adriana Lozada
4.6 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2014
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
New parents are constantly being told that putting their babies to sleep in bed with them is risky behavior that should be avoided. Despite this, bed-sharing has doubled in the past two decades. To guide us through this conundrum, I'll be talking with the very knowledgeable Teresa Pitman.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Birthful Podcast. I'm Adriana Lozada, and today we're going to be focusing on safer bed sharing. |
| 0:21.5 | New parents are constantly being told that putting their babies to sleep in bed with them |
| 0:25.1 | is risky behavior that should be avoided. |
| 0:27.5 | Despite this, bed sharing has doubled in the past two decades. |
| 0:31.1 | To guide us through this conundrum, I'll be talking with a very knowledgeable Teresa Pittman. |
| 0:35.4 | Stay tuned. |
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| 1:07.5 | Hello, Mamas and Mamas TV. Let me tell you how happy and honored I am that Teresa Pittman is here to walk us through safer bed sharing, because if someone knows about this issue, it's her. |
| 1:19.7 | Teresa has written thousands of magazine articles on parenting topics and is the author or co-author of 17 published books, including some titles you will certainly |
| 1:30.1 | recognize, such as the womanly art of breastfeeding, Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding, |
| 1:35.9 | and more recently, Sweet Sleep. She's helped breastfeeding mothers and babies for 35 years as a |
| 1:41.9 | La Leche League leader, and she's also the mother of four children and |
| 1:46.2 | the grandmother of six. Teresa, welcome. Thank you. So happy to have you here. I'm glad to be here. |
| 1:55.0 | Great to talk about this. So one of the things, I was lucky to hear you talk at a conference recently, and one of your phrases that stuck with me is that sleep happens. It does, doesn't it? |
| 2:08.2 | Yes, it does. And so, you know, mothers need to be prepared for that. One of the reasons that we want to talk about this in our book is because, you know, |
| 2:21.3 | often the people who are talking about sleep issues with new mothers are saying, |
| 2:26.7 | you know, you should do this. |
| 2:28.6 | You should nurse your baby and then put the baby down here and then do this and you know all these things that they |
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