I'd love to see their evidence for co-sleeping leading to a baby/child not knowing how to put themselves to sleep. By that analogy, should we not put them in nappies, in case they never learn to use the toilet? Or how about breast or bottle feeding them - how will they ever learn to feed themselves??!
Load of rubbish, spouting a line that most likely validates their reasons for not choosing co-sleeping.
Like all developmental things, babies make the transition from being babies, who need constant care, attention, feeding and cuddling, to being children who won't even wave goodbye when you drop them at preschool in so little time!
Co-sleeping will not impact whether or not your child will learn to sleep on their own, although it might affect when they do so and their emotional response as a result.
(I should add that I write this as a mother who has never fully co-slept with her baby!)
Last edited by Jennifer13; September 24th, 2009 at 01:52 PM.
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