Josie

Visited the RSPCA animal shelter for a dog. Spent some time with Josie. It’s s strattfordhshire bull terrier cross, female and six years old. Played well with us and had a good reaction to Anika. Need to make the decision by tomorrow.

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The small Australia nightmare |

Under Australia’s business-as-usual scenario, the dependency ratio will deteriorate somewhat until 2050 (probably to around 0.65 from today’s level of 0.48), but it will not nearly be as dramatic as in Europe or Japan, where it could be above 1 by then.

So far, Australia has its population debate the wrong way around. It is not population growth that will be the developed world’s biggest worry over the coming decades, but population decline.

As one of the very few rich countries that still has a young and growing population, Australia should embrace this opportunity and continue to grow. Other countries may well abolish themselves but Australia should not.

Taking baby into bed too risky, coroner warns | News.com.au

Mr Johns said placing an infant in a cot beside the parental bed seemed reasonable. “The emphasis should be on room sharing and not bed sharing,” he said.

Professor Byard noted co-sleeping was common in some societies and cultures that had not experienced problems with infant deaths.

But in Western society the situation was different because bedding tended to be softer than some traditional Asian societies and parents tended to be heavily built and often affected by alcohol or other drugs.

The critical thing is that most of the non-western society sleeps like that or have slept. I have grown up sleeping with parents and so has almost all the India children (we are talking about a billion plus here).

I think the bedding issue could be true and other thing is it is mostly with people with alcohol and drug abuse scenarios.

IN our case, Anika has moved to her own bed at about 9 months.