Babies Sleep In Bed With Parents

Lori feldman winter a co author of the aap guidelines and pediatrics researcher.

Babies sleep in bed with parents.

Sharing the bed with your baby multiplies the risk for sudden infant death syndrome sids fivefold according to a 2013 study. The american academy of pediatrics aap says parents should never let their baby sleep in the bed with them citing the risk of suffocation sudden infant. This is your happy medium this is your happy medium in fact the latest aap recommendations encourage parents to room share with baby for at least the first six months and ideally a year since having baby. Toddlers and parents can get a good night s sleep william.

Proponents of the family bed point to the benefits. So co sleeping can be a baby in the parents bed a baby in a co sleeper attached to the parent s bed or the baby can be in a crib or bassinette in the same room as the parents. Sleeping in the same room but not in the same bed may reduce babies risk of sids by up to 50 percent said dr. But you can practice safe co sleeping if you put baby to sleep in a separate bassinet next to your bed as opposed to in your bed.