Not exact matches
The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) as well as the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission strongly recommend against
sharing a
bed with your
baby due to the increased risk of SIDS, death
from suffocation, strangulation, or another unexplained cause.
Besides the potential safety risks,
sharing a
bed with a
baby sometimes prevent parents
from getting a good night's sleep.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - When it comes to the potential risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
from a mother
sharing her
bed with her
baby, there is a push to change the message
from «just don't do it» to «here is how it's done most safely...» (Read More)
Co sleeping doesn't have to mean
bed sharing, and
with a separate crib in place, you and your
baby can sleep just a few inches away
from each other without you having to worry about nearly as many health and safety concerns.
These pillows can keep your child much safer in the
bed with you and your partner in a
bed sharing arrangement, but they can also keep your
baby from being able to move around too much in a bassinet or crib as well.
Kids Health
From Nemours warned that
babies should not
share a
bed with other children, particularly toddlers, because they aren't aware of the
baby's presence while they sleep.
The study found that between 1993 and 2000, the number of
babies 7 months old or younger who usually
shared a
bed with an adult grew
from 5.5 percent to 12.8 percent.
One topic of continued debate among parents is co-sleeping, or
bed -
sharing, a common practice in countries outside the U.S. Fueled by increasing evidence, however, more pediatricians and sleep experts are dissuading parents
from sharing a
bed or a bedroom
with their
babies, recommending instead that
babies be allowed to learn how to fall asleep and stay asleep on their own.
I think it's amazing that God saturates our earliest experiences
with our new
babies in situations that stimulate the release of oxytocin -
from labor and birth to breastfeeding and
bed sharing and babywearing.
Whether a new mom
bed -
shares with her
baby or a larger family uses a «family
bed» for more than one kid, chances are they'll get some disapproving looks
from time to time.
My first benefitted immensely
from bed sharing, and being a new mom
with narcolepsy, I felt that the extra sleep I got once I gave in to what felt natural,
bed sharing, was safer than falling asleep inadvertently when holding the
baby and nursing or sitting.
Over the past several years, fluctuating advice regarding the relative risks associated
with bed -
sharing, and a certain amount of media scaremongering, has prompted NHS trusts to remove bedsharing information
from patient areas and introduce restrictive policies on what health professionals can say to parents about where their new
baby might sleep.