I don't know whether this is the appropriate place to post this or not, but just wanted to vent briefly about a terrible story in the Minneapolis Star Tribune yesterday about "co-sleeping." I put co-sleeping in quotes because the story was actually a sensational story about the "20 deaths/year" that occur in MN due to "co-sleeping", but everything that was described was actually the result of a caregiver drinking or doing drugs and falling asleep on top of their baby.
I was appalled that they didn't do anything to clarify that there's a difference between the very safety-conscious intentional use of co-sleeping and the negligence of just happening to fall asleep on your baby. I'm still pretty new to this forum, but wonder if API has an advocacy or media arm that responds to inaccurate and inflammatory news stories?
In any case, thanks for letting me vent!
I was appalled that they didn't do anything to clarify that there's a difference between the very safety-conscious intentional use of co-sleeping and the negligence of just happening to fall asleep on your baby. I'm still pretty new to this forum, but wonder if API has an advocacy or media arm that responds to inaccurate and inflammatory news stories?In any case, thanks for letting me vent!

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