Doctors generally discourage co-sleeping, because of its link to sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS. However, Susan Stewart, a professor of sociology at Iowa State University, found that many parents still co-sleep with theirchildren, and it is a phenomenon that extends well beyond the infant...
Bed-sharing with other adults, older children, and pets further increases the risks of sudden infant death. The safest way to co-sleep is to limit the bed to just parent and baby. When Galt first decided to embrace co-sleeping, she wanted to make sure she was doing it as safely as ...
Safer than crib sleeping The Consumer Product Safety Commission published data that described infant fatalities in adult beds. These same data, however, showed more than 3 times as many crib related infant fatalities compared to adult bed accidents15. Another recent large study concluded that bed sh...
The risk of co-sleeping occurs in bed-sharing as the latter is associated to sudden infantdeathsyndrome (SIDS). Bed-sharing puts baby at risk of: Some adults’ beds are too soft that can make a baby to sink down and have trouble breathing. Blankets, pillows, and lose bedsheets may al...
but it was too hard. Addie will say to her sisters, ‘You guys are old enough to sleep in your own beds now!’ And they just don’t yet. One day I’m going to miss them not sleeping with me. If I had a spouse it would be different, but I don’t so we all sleep together...
For me, co-sleeping has been a great experience. I got over any reservations about sleeping next to an infant very quickly. Doing it really gives you a sense of intimacy and bonding that rushing a baby to a crib can’t duplicate. My own feeling is that I wouldn’t be OK with havin...
Co-sleeping with your baby has real benefits, but it’s crucial that you do it safely. More: My Baby Doesn’t Sleep, & It’s All My Fault Co-sleeping has been popular throughout history and remains the default bedtime arrangement for parents and babies in many cultures today; it’s ma...
Aside from the safety concerns, maybe the biggest hurdle facing bed-sharing/co-sleeping parents is judgement and criticism from others. I know it’s hard to deal with at first, but the fact of the matter is, this is your baby, your life, and your choice. What others think just doesn’...
it is useful if furniture and fixtures designed for them can be used during different phases of their development. A bedside co-sleeper is very useful for an infant or very young child. However as the child grows, it will soon be desirable for him or her to have a separate bed. If the...
apparatus comprising a mattress platform for supporting a mattress of an infant, said mattress being smaller than said parental mattress; a movable partition operatively associated with said co-sleeper apparatus and that separates the parental mattress from the mattress contained in said co-sleeping ...