This book contains a lot of useful information on why cosleeping is valuable to both infants and parents. It also clearly differentiates different types of cosleeping -- bed sharing vs sidecar style vs room sharing -- and their varied risks.

I think that understanding the risks of cosleeping and how to avoid them is important for any family. As is noted often, not just in this book, most parents end up sharing a bed with their infant at least some of the time. Knowing how to do so safely is thus an important part of keeping baby safe.

However, I am giving the book a fairly low rating because it it was short on the practical details. Part II, on how to safely cosleep, takes up only a handful of pages in this already short book, and most of the material is rehashing the safety information that follows directly from the discussion in the first part of this book. I think the general pregnancy books I read which reference this one go into more practical details than this book.

Now, that may be the degree of relevant detail. Safe cosleeping -- even of the bedshare variety -- isn't terribly complex, and if this had been called, "Sleeping with Your Baby: A Call for Safe Cosleeping" then I could forgive it for spending a lot of time on background and little on practice. But I expect a guide to be a bit more practical. ( )

A very short book looking at the many benefits of cosleeping and how to do it safely. I found the benefits sections well written and provocative, with many neat facts like no study has shown interrupted sleep is worse than uninterrupted. However, the section dealing with how to cosleep was extremely short. I felt this was the main promise of the book, and really all it did was give about 12 things to look for. I would have liked more information like sleeping positions, what to do if the baby is making noises, how to respond to a squirmy baby. None of this is in here, and I'm left to look up this information elsewhere. This book left me very motivated to cosleep, but I don't feel confident knowing how to. ( )

Sleeping with your baby has been the norm for almost all cultures through almost all ages. Yet, in our modern world, the practice is fraught with questions and guilt. In Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, a world-wide recognized cosleeping authority examines why simplistic recommendations against any and all forms of cosleeping are not only scientifically inappropriate, but dangerous and morally wrong. Walking readers through various ways to safely cosleep, whether bedsharing or not, this book provides the latest information on the potential scientific benefits of cosleeping. Complete with sections on minimizing hazards and risks, this book explains why and how to sleep with your baby.