Just mention the family bed concept and you encourage heated discussion. Even in a society such as ours where co-family sleeping is discouraged strongly, large numbers of people find that it beautifully fulfills their parenting needs. Tine Thevenin contends that babies need to sleep with their parents, that this arrangement assures the type of physical closeness so crucial to bonding and human development. As a veteran of twelve years of various arrangements of co-family sleeping, I have suggested this book to many new parents and every one has thanked me profusely.
Even if you have not contemplated the family bed, or you fear it will ruin your sex life, spoil your children, and scandalize your
