Safe Co Sleeping Diagram
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Safe co sleeping diagram. Put your baby beside one parent not between parents so theres less chance of your baby slipping under the bedding or being rolled on by a parent. Infants should sleep on their backs on firm surfaces on clean surfaces in the absence of smoke under light comfortable blanketing and their heads should never be covered. Would you consider safe co sleeping with your baby. Now just to clarify we have a giant bed actually two beds pushed together.
These days it is not an evident choice to make. Post natally safe infant sleep begins especially with the presence of an informed breastfeeding committed mother or an informed and committed father. On his back 6. If a mother is.
Below is a summary that highlights some of the issues to be. And in the midst of these discussions polls indicate that up to 70 of all parents do bring their babies and older children in their family bed. Some research indicates a higher risk for sids sudden infant death syndrome for co sleeping babies while other studies show exactly the opposite. Keep cool keeping the room cool around 65 68 degrees is recommended for lowering the risk of sids.
Small crowded spaces are not safe for co sleeping infants. La leche league internationals safe sleep seven rules for bedsharing co sleeping families. Co sleeping is when the baby sleeps near the parents either in the same bed or the room with them. The babys bed is adjacent to and touching the parents bed.
The baby is in the same bed with mom and dad. Professor of biological anthropology director mother baby sleep laboratory university of notre dame. Guidelines to sleeping safe with infants. Maximizing the chances of safe infant sleep in the solitary and cosleeping specifically bed sharing contexts by james j.
You can use a safe infant sleeping baginstead of bedding so that your baby doesnt share adult bedding. We also put our kids to bed separately until we went to bed micah was in the co sleeper next to the bed. Use lightweight blankets not heavy quilts or doonas.