In such cases,
a separate safe sleeping surface might be a better choice.
Not exact matches
Room - sharing (baby on a
separate,
safe sleep surface in the same room as
sleeping parents), however, is correlated with lower SUID / SIDS risks.
According to the Mother - Baby
Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, you can create a
safe co-
sleeping environment by adhering to guidelines such as putting the baby along side the adult bed on a
separate surface and not taking any medication that makes you unresponsive while
sleeping.
Aside from never letting an infant
sleep outside the presence of a committed adult, i.e.
separate -
surface cosleeping which is
safe for all infants, I do not recommend to any parents any particular type of
sleeping arrangement since I do not know the circumstances within which particular parents live.
In addition, bottle fed infants should not
sleep in bed with the parents, although a
separate surface beside the bed is probably
safe, as explained by the University of Notre Dame.
It gets baby on a
safe separate sleep surface but allows proximity for easy feeding and touch.
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics»
safe sleep recommendations, babies should
sleep in the same room as their parents but on a
separate, flat
surface on their backs for their first year of life.
I put a single bed next to my bed so baby was on a
separate surface and in own baby
safe bedding and I could just pop out my quite large breasts and feed while dozing off and we were
sleeping on
separate surfaces.