YES ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So many parents are sooooo paranoid, however in saying that i don't think that those paranoid parents are bad parents just that i can't understand how they deal with all the extra stress they put on themselves. Each to their own, what works for us is different to what works for them and thats fine.

i think parents have forgotten just how tough and resilient babies and children are. We only ever used a monitor if DS was in bed and we were outside, it was really tempting to use it all the time but we stopped ourselves from doing that as we would have jumped at every single little whimper, instead of just letting him turn over and settle himself back to sleep. i did use an anti-roll pillow til DS learnt how to completely roll over and back again. i think i do worry too much about the rights and wrongs of discipline, but i also think some people don't put enough thought into it.

I guess we all pick and choose as a parent what things we will and will not worry about. Compared to other parents i think we are very relaxed.