Sentences with word «bedshare»

I have to say... I get really concerned when I see people simply disregarding the studies that indicate a risk of bedsharing with young babies — in particular people dispensing advice to families with new babies.

I helped Morgan with breastfeeding when she was having difficulty getting her sleepy babies to latch, and Jim and I helped Morgan prepare for safe bedsharing with twins and made sure she ate healthy and rested often.

Hybrid Rasta Mama also offers a product recommendation for bedsharing as well as tons of links at the bottom of the post on co-sleeping.

The Safe Sleep Seven leaflets promote the seven steps recommended by La Leche League in order to create a safe bedsharing environment for parents and babies.

The AAP recommends against bedsharing in their policy statement on prevention of SIDS / suffocation deaths.

Their short - sighted, dogmatic, counterproductive, bang - their - heads - against - the - wall - expecting - different - results thinking might actually contribute to SIDS deaths among bedsharing babies.

I am a father and husband to a child and mother who bedshared and breastfeed for 2-1/2 years.

The sleep behavior of breastfeeding bedsharing mothers and babies shows certain key characteristics.

Why the Conflicting Results on Bedsharing Risk?

In one of the first studies examining bedsharing practice in the UK, Ball et al [27] discovered that although prospective parents did not anticipate sleeping with their newborn baby, by three months after birth, the majority of parents had done so.

(2) The most recent study on bedsharing and SIDS in the UK found that babies who died while sleeping with a parent were doing so in a hazardous environment, particularly on a sofa, or with a parent who had consumed alcohol or drugs.

New study finds «infant bedsharing in the absence of other risk factors is not inherently dangerous»

Still others bedshare because it is the only way that anyone gets any sleep at night, and we all know that sleep deprivation carries some risk, too, as does falling asleep on a couch with your baby.

If bedsharing, ideally, both parents should agree and feel comfortable with the decision.

I would have never gotten any sleep without bedsharing!

So what makes bedsharing unsafe?

Observations of sleep - sharing breastfeeding infants show that they nurse more frequently, and for longer periods than breastfeeding infants who do not sleep next to their mothers, but nonetheless routinely bedsharing mothers obtain as much or more sleep as those who sleep apart from their breastfed babies.

But, from both personal and professional experience, it doesn't mean we shouldn't try and advocate for safer bedsharing guidelines.

Maternal sleep deprivation is among mothers who resort to bedsharing out of despair mostly driven by attempting to exclusively breastfeed.

One of the most important reasons why bedsharing occurs, and the reason why simple declarations against it will not eradicate it, is because sleeping next to one's baby is biologically appropriate, unlike placing infants prone to sleep or putting an infant in a room to sleep by itself.

Also parents retain the right to learn what factors can make bedsharing unsafe, and how to maximize safety.

Like many bedsharing parents, I've had conversations where I let people assume my daughter sleeps in a crib.

Even though we've shifted away from bedsharing, bedtime still remains for us a wonderful time of connection.

Does Bedsharing Increase the Risk of Death for Younger Infants?

Yes, cosleeping is wonderful for bonding, but if we look at the research of this nighttime parenting choice and its so - called dangers, the recommendation to ban bedsharing under any circumstance is just not there.

I think it is vitally important to understand the relationship between bedsharing behavior and risk of SIDS and accidental deaths.

I don't find the information from McKenna, Sears and other bedsharing advocates to be scientific at all.

I never said bedsharing is the best way.

However, due to our new floor bed, and current cosleeping / bedsharing -LSB-...]

I've loved bedsharing in a way I didn't last time.

(9) In fact, a lot of mothers who say they don't bedshare actually do.