It is important to realize that the physical and social conditions under which infant -
parent cosleeping occurs, in all its diverse forms, can and will determine the risks or benefits.
McKenna has studied infant -
parent cosleeping for most of his career.
Not exact matches
Suzanne at The Joyful Chaos who co-sleeps, but also says she's «not actually an advocate for co-sleeping,» drives the point home that you have to do what works best for your family in her post The
Cosleeping Edition of my Attachment
Parenting Freako - ness and sometimes that may very well differ from child to child.
to: «Breastfeeding could protect against
cosleeping deaths» or «Formula feeding
parents should be alerted to
cosleeping risks»
He has published three books, the most recent one titled Sleeping with Your Baby: A
Parent's Guide to
Cosleeping.
Tandem breastfeeding,
cosleeping, babywearing, elimination communication around the clock, gentle
parenting extraordinaire.
Despite the benefits of
cosleeping, pediatricians still frequently recommend sleep training to exhausted
parents of infants.
, a popular attachment -
parenting blog, «
cosleeping with baby is culturally accepted in many non western [sic] societies today.»
Not everyone was born to be a babywearing,
cosleeping, breastfeeding
parent.
API publishes this information knowing that
parents are engaged in the use of cribs and
cosleeping in all its forms, and as such, API is committed to keeping children safe and healthy by providing the most current safety information available.
I was living the principles of Attachment
Parenting, as well as babywearing, breastfeeding and
cosleeping, before I knew the term Attachment
Parenting existed.
Attachment
Parenting International (API), in consultation with many experts in the area of infant sleep, has this information in the form of an Infant Sleep Safety Guidelines brochure and wants to get it into the hands of
parents everywhere to ensure that all babies can be safe during sleep, at night and at naptime, regardless of whether you share sleep in the same bed, use a
cosleeping bassinet, or use a crib.
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parents love their little ones as much as
cosleeping parents, of that I have no doubt.
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She blogs at A Little Bit of All of It about those things she is passionate about like cloth diapering, breastfeeding (past infancy), bedsharing /
cosleeping, baby - led solids, natural childbirth, attachment
parenting, natural living, Christianity, miscarriage awareness, babywearing, and homeschooling.
One common argument against
cosleeping is that it will create children who are more dependent on
parents than children who sleep alone, or that
cosleeping children will never learn to sleep alone.
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Reading this excerpt of a wildly popular
parenting book from 1928, as you breastfeed your baby or
cosleep with your toddler or cuddle with your preschooler or hug your preteen or put your arm around your teen's shoulders, how do you feel it was like for your great - grandmother to be admonished for instinctively loving her child, only to be told that her instinct is exactly what would damage that child?
But recent scientific studies are building a much stronger argument for the benefits of sharing sleep with our children.1 Yet even with the scientific support and the changing cultural perception of
cosleeping, the subject is typically constrained to
parents of infants.
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Some
parents will feel safe
cosleeping.
Attachment
parenting is often misconstrued to be simply about breastfeeding, babywearing,
cosleeping, etc..
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Cosleeping, also known as «sharing sleep» or having a «family bed,» is a
parenting practice that still smacks of taboo in our Western culture.
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My marriage hasn't suffered the least from
cosleeping, and I'm sure many
parents would say the same thing.
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Honestly, my view is that if either
parent is in the habit of drinking heavily in the evenings, even only occasionally,
cosleeping should not be considered because you can't guarantee that this baby is safe in the bed.
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McKenna is also a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame and author of the book, «Sleeping with Your Baby: A
Parent's Guide to
Cosleeping,»
He's been
cosleeping with his
parents & is getting ready for a new baby brother in the next four weeks (or sooner) so he definitely needs his own bed.
Others are proponents of rocking or holding baby until she falls asleep in the comfort of her
parent's arms,
cosleeping, or the «family bed.»
Now, I'm a big proponent of bedsharing — I think it's, as the saying goes, «just the best thing since sliced bread» — but what I value more than allowing a child to sleep with her
parents is giving permission for
parents to be able to make the choice of how a child
cosleeps.
Many of the AP practices were things we already planned on doing — such as natural birth and extended breastfeeding — and others evolved naturally once we became
parents, including
cosleeping, babywearing and gentle discipline.
I talk to other
parents who don't
cosleep and bedtime is a battle every night with a crying kid who doesn't want to go to bed yet.
AP
parents don't
cosleep with their children because they're afraid of bedtime battles.
I keep having this crazy idea about night weaning, but then at 3 am when she wakes up for the third freaking time, I realise my
parenting style is #lazymom and I shove it in her face and fall back to sleep [because I'm a die hard
cosleeping mama who just can't handle sleep training].
its hard for me to understand how a baby can die from
cosleeping with their
parent - i just do nt understand how a
parent could be so unaware of their child in the bed with them!
Some things like
cosleeping are not allowed by the foster care system, but nighttime
parenting is still always important.
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.
If anything, the whole idea of attachment
parenting is that all of this baby wearing, nursing,
cosleeping and responding to needs creates a feeling of security that the
parent is present and will be helpful should a need a rise.
James McKenna, PhD., probably the foremost researcher on the topic of mother - infant
cosleeping, has written Sleeping with Your Baby: A
Parent's Guide to Co-Sleeping.
I'm well past the early years of attachment
parenting, but for all the intensity of breastfeeding,
cosleeping, responding sensitively, and learning gentle discipline, attachment
parenting has since become a lifestyle.
Even with infants, many families report more sleep and less crying — without sacrificing a
parent's sense of satisfaction — with breastfeeding, babywearing, and
cosleeping.
It's trying to educate
parents and society that the
parenting choices (breastfeeding, extended breastfeeding, babywearing,
cosleeping, cloth diapering, and attachment
parenting) are not only for attachment
parents — but for any
parent who chooses it.