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This article made me stop and wonder, why would she think this is an ok thing to do? An anonymous mother wrote in and told a secret that makes me cringe. Here is her letter to The Stir's New Mom Secrets:

My son is 4 months old and has been SUCH a good, sound sleeper. By now his sleeping is fairly predictable, enough so that I once took the dog on a brief walk while he slept. That worked, so I bumped it up a notch and started walking myself. Now I take short runs. I try to stay close, keep it around the block over and over, and I check in. I have done this maybe a dozen times and never had a problem. The baby is always still sleeping soundly and I am never gone long enough that he would be really crying even if he did wake up. But I also don't tell anyone. - Anonymous

I say she is completely wrong. There is no way a 4-month-old baby should ever be left alone, even while sleeping. My first thoughts were: What if someone breaks into her home? What if he suffocated? What if the apartment caught on fire? Then I began to think: What if something happened to the mom? If she was hit by a car or someone attacked her? There's really no way I can justify this from a mom.

How about you: Would you leave a four-month-old alone, even if it was just for a short run while they were sleeping?