You and your pediatrician disagree regarding where your infant should sleep. You strongly believe that she should sleep with you, while your pediatrician insists that it can be dangerous for her not to sleep in her own crib. What would be your argument?
A. Thoughts about where a baby should sleep are often influenced by cultural practices.
B. Your pediatrician does not care as much about your infant as you do.
C. Children who cosleep with their parents will have excessive dependencies on their parents, and this is a good thing.
D. Your pediatrician is out of touch with American family practices. It is more common to cosleep in the United States that it is elsewhere in the world.
Answer: A
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