Co-sleeping tends to polarize opinion; for many it's quite the reverse of the Done Thing, but we did it for the first month as it worked well for us. It's not that easy to fit all three of you in the bed without feeling like someone's going to fall out - R got less of the bed than A did, I'm sure! But there are advantages if you can manage it.
The advice we got about co-sleeping was in the context of it facilitating breastfeeding, and was in favour; it consisted of the baby needing to sleep nearest the mother rather than the father, because the mother will be most aware of the baby through initial hormonal connections or some such; and the baby wasn't to sleep in between the parents due to risk of overheating. The advice from the SIDS end of things is less in favour of co-sleeping, but to be honest if you are sticking to the main guidelines about amount of clothing / layers for the baby, you avoid smoking & drinking, and you are breast-feeding, then it should be ok. SIDS is all a bit mysterious and scary but the actual figures for it are very low, especially if you are breast-feeding and are not a young mother.
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Date: 2010-12-20 03:35 pm (UTC)The advice we got about co-sleeping was in the context of it facilitating breastfeeding, and was in favour; it consisted of the baby needing to sleep nearest the mother rather than the father, because the mother will be most aware of the baby through initial hormonal connections or some such; and the baby wasn't to sleep in between the parents due to risk of overheating. The advice from the SIDS end of things is less in favour of co-sleeping, but to be honest if you are sticking to the main guidelines about amount of clothing / layers for the baby, you avoid smoking & drinking, and you are breast-feeding, then it should be ok. SIDS is all a bit mysterious and scary but the actual figures for it are very low, especially if you are breast-feeding and are not a young mother.