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Choosing Cosleeping & Other Sleep Safety Tips
Cosleeping -- not to be confused with bedsharing -- is when parents keep their baby at a close distance while sleeping, such as having the child sleep in a crib next to the parents' bed. "Everyone should have their own sleeping environment," says Abby Collier, project manager of the Child Death Review program at the Children's Health Alliance of Wisconsin. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends having your baby's crib within an arm's reach of your bed for safety as well as for ease of breastfeeding and bonding for the first six months. Such proximity can help you monitor your baby, making it easier and faster to respond to any situation.
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11/23/2011 10:29:29 AM Report AbuseBedsharing is NOT absolutely, always dangerous. There are guidelines for safe bedsharing. Following these guidelines can actually create a safer sleep environment than solitary crib sleeping. It's not for everyone, but it may help you, your baby and your family get a better night's rest. See the links below for SAFE bedsharing guidelines: http://www.askdrsears.com/news/latest-news/dr-sears-addresses-recent-co-sleeping-concerns http://cosleeping.nd.edu/safe-co-sleeping-guidelines/
11/21/2011 03:42:23 PM Report AbuseOk I have 5 kids and breastfeed and co slept will all of them. The youngest, twins, are 3 and still sometimes come to our bed. Even with a king size bed, if there is more than three in it someone will move to another bed. The twins have shared sleeping space since birth in the NIC at the hospital. When they were too big to share a crib we used two crib--that is until the jumping between cribs go to be too much. Now they have 2 big beds, but share one
11/21/2011 12:31:19 PM Report AbuseRedefining cosleeping to not include bedsharing is nonsense. All this does is confuse all the people who've always known that cosleeping was sharing a bed. That having been said, actually cosleeping- as in sharing a bed- can be done safely.
11/21/2011 11:46:28 AM Report AbuseCosleeping is safe, I've been doing that for two years and only recently stopped. My reason for co-sleep is because my baby has eczema, and I can stop her from scratching should she scratch in her sleep. Also, co-sleeping may reduce stress in the child and stress being one of the trigger of eczema, can then be minimized! MarcieMom, Eczemablues
11/21/2011 11:15:43 AM Report Abuse