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		<title>The truth about bedsharing risks &#8211; and why it may not be what you think</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2011/12/15/the-truth-about-bedsharing-risks-and-why-it-may-not-be-what-you-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 06:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Safe Cosleeping Blog Carnival This post was written for inclusion in the Safe Cosleeping Blog Carnival hosted by Monkey Butt Junction . Our bloggers have written on so many different aspects of cosleeping. Please read to the end to find a list of links to the other carnival participants. *** This post [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=67&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hello and welcome!</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2011/11/05/hello-and-welcome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 19:08:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General comments]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Hi there!  I&#8217;m Sarah, I&#8217;m a GP living and working in the UK, and I have two children.  If you want to read more about me and my life, do come check out my general blog, Good Enough Mum. When I was pregnant with my first child, it didn&#8217;t take me long to learn that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=22&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Accentuate the negative, eliminate the positive? The problems with Wiessinger&#8217;s &#8216;Watch Your Language&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2011/08/12/accentuate-the-negative-eliminate-the-positive-the-problems-with-wiessingers-watch-your-language/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 21:48:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breastfeeding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post was first posted on the Good Enough Mum blog, here.) Fifteen years ago, Diane Wiessinger, a breastfeeding counsellor and activist, wrote an article about breastfeeding promotion for the Journal of Human Lactation, entitled &#8216;Watch Your Language&#8216;.  In it, she claimed to have the answer to the thorny question of why lactation consultants and the health care [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=42&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Breastfeeding for longer than a year &#8211; myths, facts, and what the research really shows</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2011/04/18/breastfeeding-for-longer-than-a-year-myths-facts-and-what-the-research-really-shows/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2011/04/18/breastfeeding-for-longer-than-a-year-myths-facts-and-what-the-research-really-shows/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breastfeeding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Breastfeeding past infancy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post first appeared on the Good Enough Mum blog as a submission to the April 2011 Carnival of Breastfeeding.  You can read the original here.) Extended breastfeeding is the term given, in our society, to breastfeeding a child beyond the first year.  An increasing number of women are choosing to do this, and, sadly, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=13&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Case Of The Lactivist Propaganda &#8211; A Reply To Ann Calandro</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/07/25/the-case-of-the-lactivist-propaganda-a-reply-to-ann-calandro/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/07/25/the-case-of-the-lactivist-propaganda-a-reply-to-ann-calandro/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Breastfeeding]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post was originally published on the Good Enough Mum blog, in response to a link to Calandro&#8217;s essay in a comment on someone else&#8217;s blog.  Since the particular comment seems fairly irrelevant now, I haven&#8217;t bothered with the references back to it, and have thus edited the beginning and end of it slightly &#8211; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=15&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I don&#8217;t believe that sleep training is incompatible with children&#8217;s rights</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/05/09/why-i-dont-believe-that-sleep-training-is-incompatible-with-childrens-rights/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/05/09/why-i-dont-believe-that-sleep-training-is-incompatible-with-childrens-rights/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 22:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sleep training]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post originally appeared on the Good Enough Mum blog here.) Mothers for Women&#8217;s Lib regularly host a Carnival of Feminist Parenting.  Every month (recently reduced to every two months) they post links to a selection of posts about various diverse topics on the general themes of feminism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=58&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do multiple vaccines overload the immune system?  Apparently not.</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/04/27/do-multiple-vaccines-overload-the-immune-system-apparently-not/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2010/04/27/do-multiple-vaccines-overload-the-immune-system-apparently-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post was originally posted on the Good Enough Mum blog, here.) One common claim of the anti-vaccine movement is that there are just too many vaccines these days, and that the sheer number given is overwhelming the immune systems of many children and leading to all sorts of potential ills specified or unspecified (autism [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=56&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MMR Decision, Part 2 &#8211; Singles Not Fabulous</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2009/08/31/the-mmr-decision-part-2-singles-not-fabulous/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2009/08/31/the-mmr-decision-part-2-singles-not-fabulous/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 22:29:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post originally appeared on the Good Enough Mum blog, here.) I&#8217;m always pleased and flattered to stumble across links back to my own posts (assuming the context isn&#8217;t &#8220;For an example of an atrociously poor piece of writing, click&#8230;&#8221;).  This (the main part of the sentence, not the parenthetical bit) happened to me last [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=53&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The MMR decision and death rays from Mars</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2009/02/21/the-mmr-decision-and-death-rays-from-mars/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2009/02/21/the-mmr-decision-and-death-rays-from-mars/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Feb 2009 22:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Vaccines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(This post was originally posted on the Good Enough Mum blog, here.) I wanted to write this post because I know that the alleged MMR link has worried many parents, and thought it might help at least some people to hear from a mother and a GP about how and why I reached the decision [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=51&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>CIO, sleep training, and evidence or the lack thereof</title>
		<link>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2006/07/07/cio-sleep-training-and-evidence-or-the-lack-thereof/</link>
		<comments>http://parentingmythsandfacts.com/2006/07/07/cio-sleep-training-and-evidence-or-the-lack-thereof/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jul 2006 22:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr Sarah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sleep training]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(This post initially appeared on the Good Enough Mum site in 2006 &#8211; I&#8217;m reposting it here some years later, under the original date.  Comments on the original can be seen over there.) The sleep training debate has, to no-one&#8217;s great surprise, popped up again in Parentland.  In the red corner, Rosa Brooks: hell, yeah, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=parentingmythsandfacts.com&#038;blog=28889114&#038;post=8&#038;subd=parentingmythsandfacts&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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