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...have people like my Aunt Lena been dispensing this kind of wisdom for generations, but also Dr. Spock first published it in Baby and Child Care in 1945. For me, his famous first sentences, "Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do," contain more wisdom than a bassinet full of Baby Whisperers...
...SIDS for the American Academy of Pediatrics, told me that if parents can avoid "loose bedding, pillows, soft surfaces, waterbeds, mattresses that might pull away from bed frames, smoking and drinking in bed," then co-sleeping was O.K. Otherwise they should have their infant within reach in a bassinet. "They have this kind now that straps to the bed," Dr. Kattwinkel offered. "Straps? I don't know. Sounds like a hazard to me," I said. He assured me that there are bassinets out there that have been tested and approved by the Consumer Product Safety Commission...
...believe it would profit just abouteverybody," says William R. Fitzsimmons '67."Students who arrive here have been on a fasttrack pretty much from the bassinet," he says.Fitzsimmons notes that 20 percent ofundergraduates take time off during their fouryears at the College...
...Mateo's Crib It's baby's first convertible--a rocking cradle that segues neatly into a bassinet. Designed by Alberto Mantilla and Anthony Baxter of Curve I.D., it's intended to rockabye babies between birth and six months. The body, of molded plywood with an ash veneer, rests on a table base of solid ash. It has the simplicity of a Shaker basket with a touch of nursery humor, yet even those smiles are functional handles. Mies van der Rohe himself would smile at that...
Some crimes stun the mind, others sear the soul. In Richmond, California, last week, townspeople were agonizing over the savage beating of a one-month-old baby. Ignacio Bermudez Jr. was dumped from his bassinet, pummeled with fists, kicked and possibly hit with a stick, leaving his skull cracked. His alleged assailants? Twin brothers, age 8, and the suspected ringleader, a boy of 6, who were playmates of Ignacio's siblings. "This is as shocking a crime as we have seen," said Richmond police captain Ray Howard...