Sentences with phrase «of safe bedsharing»

Indeed, the topic of safe bedsharing is murky and while the two sides are separated by a large, vast chasm, they are each equally certain that only they are correct.

Not exact matches

The Director of the Mother - Baby Sleep Laboratory at Notre Dame and author of the book Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping, is an expert on the subject, and all bedsharing parents should be familiar with his Safe Cosleeping Guidelines.

The current infant sleep safety guidelines for bedsharing advocate informing parents of how to make a bedsharing environment safe should a breastfeeding mother doze off while feeding in bed, which is far safer than dozing off anywhere else.

Non-smoking, sober breastfeeding mothers and partners who likewise accept and welcome and adopt safety precautions altogether make for the creation of the most safe bedsharing environment.

Those mothers or fathers for whom having their baby close and next to them means the most and those that can follow through with avoiding all of the adverse factors presently know, and who breastfeed, will construct and enjoy the safest possible bedsharing environment.

What is safe always depends on the totality of the social, psychological, nutritional, emotional, and physical circumstances (furniture including bedding, mattress quality and stiffness) within which the «bedsharing» occurs.

Stepping aside from dangerous social factors, such as adult inebriation or adult bedsharing while under the influence of drugs, or infants sleeping alongside disinterested strangers, and ignoring (for the moment) the physical - structural - furniture and bedding aspects of «safe infant sleep» always occurs in the context of, and under the supervision of, a committed, sober adult caregiver who is in a position to respond to infant nutritional needs, crises, and can exchange sensory stimuli all of which represents just what babies depend on for maximum health.

The Academy of Breast Feeding Medicine, the USA Breast Feeding Committee, the Breast Feeding section of the American Academy of Pediatrics, La Leche League International, UNICEF and WHO are all prestigious organizations who support bedsharing and which use the best and latest scientific information on what makes mothers and babies safe and healthy.

Lower estimations of how many people safely bedsharing in our population significantly makes crib sleeping look much, much safer than bedsharing because parents are not afraid to say that their babies sleep in cribs; but many who bedshare and their babies live, and are not therefore counted in relative risks of crib vs. bedsharing statistics.

To begin with, whether or not bedsharing is safe begins with a consideration of the adults, usually the mother, who will be sleeping with the baby.

Bedsharing is another form of cosleeping which can be made either safe or unsafe, but it is not intrinsically one nor the other.

What do you mean when you say that bedsharing outcomes fall on a continuum of outcomes ranging from safe and protective to dangerous?

I suggest you check it out — a lot of parents who like this article might want to know about an ingenious solution to the bedsharing problem and practice safe co-sleeping.

Indeed, the rhetoric is nothing less than threatening, of any and all bedsharing parents even when risks are minimized; and the zeal and imprecise language which is being used by many technicians involved in what is considered «safe infant sleep» campaigns is over simplified to the point that it is inaccurate, misleading, and inappropriate, and is itself dangerous on many different levels, both politically and scientifically (see Gettler and McKenna 2010 available on this website).

There is a difference between the act of co-sleeping or co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing and the conditions within which it occurs (which can be safe or unsafe);

According to Dr. James McKenna, head of the University of Notre Dame's Mother - Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, «Bedsharing... can be made either safe or unsafe, but it is not intrinsically one nor the other.»

An in - depth exploration of the science and research supporting the safety of bedsharing for breastfeeding mothers and babies, introducing La Leche League International's «Safe Sleep Seven» tool.

The Safe Sleep Seven offers a middle ground: Seven research - supported criteria which, if met, offer a level of bedsharing safety equivalent to crib safety.

Alas, bedsharing with babies under the age of one isn't safe.

They advocate for a more tempered view of bedsharing safety, one that recognizes that all bedsharing situations are not alike and that, though not proven, it is certainly possible that a safe bedsharing environment can exist.

Also, although I intuitively felt that bedsharing was totally natural and safe, my husband very strongly believed that we should follow the recommendations of the medical community and abstain from bedsharing.

Safe bedsharing is really an overhaul of the whole sleep environment.

«The type of mattress is a huge part of what constitutes safe bedsharing.»

However, it also had the effect of raising the ire of those who believe bedsharing can never be safe, drawing me into a debate I realize is more passionate than I had ever anticipated.

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Throughout time and all over the world, mothers have been adopting the same position to keep their babies safe when they sleep.1 One of the reasons that bedsharing is safer when you're breastfeeding is the way a nursing mother instinctively positions her body next to her baby's, in what the La Leche League International authors of Sweet Sleep: Nighttime and Naptime strategies for the Breastfeeding Family call a «cuddle curl.»

Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and infant are unable to safely sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are followed, an infant that dies while sharing a sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.

It is clear that bedsharing can, indeed, be particularly dangerous and should be avoided when drugs and alcohol are used, when mothers are smokers (before and after pregnancy), when other children are in the bed, if breastfeeding is not involved (as it changes the position of the infant in relationship to the mother's body and the sensitivity of each to the other), or if soft mattresses or heavy blankets are used.4,34,47 - 51 It is also clear that co-sleeping on a sofa, a couch or a recliner is highly dangerous and should always be avoided.48, 49,52 For families that can not arrange a safe bedsharing, however, separate surface co-sleeping (a bassinet next to the bed, or the crib or an attached cradle, a form of roomsharing) provides similar benefits without any risk.

This brings us to red flag number two — the studies that have found an increase in SIDS associated with bedsharing have failed to control for all of the known safety factors that affect safe bedsharing [8][9].

It is this issue that allowed me to remain skeptical of the aforementioned research and the notion that bedsharing per se is not safe.

While it would make common sense to ensure that mothers who have never breastfed, and fathers who sleep alone with their babies, are aware of what safe bedsharing positioning and behaviour entail we do not currently know whether they are likely to maintain the same level of vigilance and synchrony during sleep that is exhibited by breastfeeding mothers.

No one is out to demonize parents, but what we keep hearing in our safe infant sleep group from parents who used to bedshare is that once the safe sleep message is adequately conveyed in detail and not just simply saying don't do this or that, but explaining the mechanism or risks behind infant sleeping in swings or using crib bumpers or bedsharing is the kind of understanding that in return results in family planning to be dedicated to safe infant sleep practices.

Did I mention that such bedsharing - friendly guidelines in that province from 2011 were the product of BC Perinatal Services ignoring both the Canada PHA safe sleep recommendation against bedsharing and BC Coroner Services five year safe sleep CDR report from 2009 in which the mythical * safe * bedsharing of dr McKenna was named, shamed, and discarded as rubbish in light of evidence?

The Milk Meg made a call to her followers to post images of their * safe * bedsharing that she would use to illustrate her blog on how cribs ruine motherhood.

If you've actually READ the task force bit on bedsharing they are quite clear that it's still controversial and thus they err on the side of saying «no», despite acknowledging that it can be safe in some subgroups.

I read a description of what sounded like safe bedsharing but it sure didn't sound comfortable: on a thin futon on the floor, no blankets or pillows, mom wearing a sweater, thick socks and sweatpants (in layers if needed) and baby in a sleep sack.

In fact, the little data that is available on this says that infants who are in the adult be to breastfeed and are then placed back to sleep in a safe crib are not at increased risk of SIDS (those would be the infants like my babies who bedshared in adult bed accidentally because the mother did not plan or intend to bedshare but passed out while night nursing and woke up several hours later).