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Co-sleeping with your baby - The Lullaby Trust

Some parents choose to share a bed or other sleep surface (also known as co-sleeping) with their babies. Read our advice on how to co-sleep more safely.

Co-sleeping with your baby - Raising Children Network

Co-sleeping is when babies sleep on the same surface as another person, like a parent or sibling. Co-sleeping can be planned – for example, when parents bring ...

Co-Sleeping With Your Baby | Sleep Foundation

The American Academy of Pediatrics strongly recommends room-sharing but discourages bed-sharing. Some types of co-sleeping may pose risks for an infant's ...

Is Sleeping With Your Baby As Dangerous As Doctors Say? - NPR

In the early 2000s, several studies found that bed-sharing substantially raised a baby's risk of SIDS. By 2011, pediatricians started giving ...

How Cosleeping Can Help You and Your Baby

Epidemiological research in the '70s and '80s identified factors that co-occurred with SIDS, especially stomach sleeping and sleeping with ...

The Safe Sleep Seven - La Leche League International

Learn the seven steps to safe co-sleeping with your baby, including a catchy bedsharing song to help you remember and an infographic to save ...

How to Co-sleep as Safely as Possible - Today's Parent

James McKenna, California-based anthropologist and author of the book Safe Infant Sleep, says that mothers sleeping next to their infants can be ...

Bed-Sharing (for Parents) | Nemours KidsHealth

Co-Sleeping, Room-Sharing, and Bed-Sharing · Room-sharing: This is when parents have a crib, bassinet, portable crib, or play yard in the room with them near the ...

Co-Sleeping With a Toddler: Is It Safe? - WebMD

While it can be fun to co-sleep with your toddler, doing so can cause them a lot of harm. You could roll over them and cause injury during deep sleep.

Breastfeeding and co-sleeping

It is recommended that babies sleep in their own safe sleeping space next to the parent's bed for the first 6 to 12 months of life. However, many parents choose ...

How to Keep Your Sleeping Baby Safe: AAP Policy Explained

Avoid falling asleep with your baby in other spots, too. The risk of sleep-related infant death is up to 67 times higher when infants sleep with ...

How do I safely co-sleep with my newborn? : r/beyondthebump

Baby sleeping on back or side. Typically my baby and I face each other on our sides (breastfeeding).

Safe Cosleeping Guidelines

Each bed-sharer should agree that he or she is equally responsible for the infant and acknowledge before sleeping that they are aware that the infant is present ...

Co-sleeping with your baby | Red Nose Australia

The safest place for a baby to sleep is in their own safe sleep space. Red Nose does not recommend co-sleeping (sharing a sleep surface).

Safe Sleep Environment

Some data suggest that room sharing reduces the risk of SIDS by as much as 50% compared with sharing an adult bed with baby or sleeping in a separate room from ...

The Truth About the Risks of Co-Sleeping - Parents

The AAP's safe sleeping guidelines4, which were updated in June 2022, state that parents should never let their baby sleep in the bed with them— ...

Sleep: Bedshare - La Leche League International

Mothers and babies sleeping together is a normal, healthy, shared instinct as old as humankind. But certain situations can make this normal behavior unsafe.

Why Is Co-sleeping Dangerous For Babies? - Piedmont Healthcare

Sleeping next to your newborn is dangerous and can even be fatal, says pediatrician Rebecca Reamy, M.D. She's seen babies die from suffocation and other causes ...

Safe co-sleeping / sharing a bed with your baby

Put your baby to sleep in their own safe sleep space – a bassinet or cot, or a wahakura or Pēpi Pod® if you choose to have your baby in bed with you. Don't put ...

Is sleeping with your baby a good idea? Here's what the science says

A study measuring the amount of sleep at six, 12 and 18 months showed that the group of children co-sleeping on a shared surface or in the same ...