Sleeping With Your Baby

In a recent article titled Sleeping with baby not best idea by By Liz Atwood of the Baltimore Sun.com the point, as per the title of the article, sleeping with baby may not be the best idea.

According to the article;

Allowing babies to sleep with their parents is a bad idea, say the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which note that the arrangement poses a risk of suffocation and strangulation.

Still, sleep-deprived parents who can't get their babies to sleep in a crib often ask Dr. Terry Nguyen, a pediatrician at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, for her advice on co-sleeping.

There seems to be a bit of difference of opinion out there about sleeping with your baby. We personally did not sleep with our daughter, she had a crib in her own bed room. That worked best for us, but I do believe for some parents it might be a better solution to sleep with your babies.

I think the most important thing is to be informed, no matter what your choice is. For those parents who want to sleep with their baby I recommend Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping.

One reviewer stated;

Providing photos that clearly illustrate the dangers of entrapment and that caution parents against other situations that would make bedsharing a poor choice (e.g., if one or both parents is significantly obese, if the parents smoke or if the mother smoked during pregnancy, if one or both parents have consumed alcohol, if the sleeping surface is not suitable for bedsharing, if pets or older children share the bed, etc.), McKenna clearly maps out the do's and don'ts of cosleeping. He also explains that there's a difference between bedsharing (sharing a bed) and cosleeping (sleeping with your baby in close proximity to you). He stresses that it's important to specify the nature of the cosleeping arrangement when we're talking about cosleeping so that we don't muddy the waters further on this already controversial issue. "There is no one right way to cosleep, nor does cosleeping occur in one correct configuration. While some ways of cosleeping are safer than other ways, some are not safe at all," he notes.

Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping



Book Details
Paperback: 128 pages
Publisher: Platypus Media; 1 edition (January 1, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1930775342
ISBN-13: 978-1930775343