Many parents are afraid of practicing co-sleeping, as their pediatrician tells them that it has been considered to increase the risk of SIDS. What is the truth about co-sleeping and SIDS?
First of all, the question must be first responded to by asking…what kind of Co-sleeping are you referring to? It is scientifically fallacious to say that co-sleeping increases the chances of SIDS especially in light of the fact that hundreds of different co-sleeping patterns exist which vary in degrees of safety and benefits enormously and outcomes associated with them. Room-sharing is a form of cosleeping and it is known that room-sharing decreases an infants’ chances dying by one half! But perhaps more importantly no human infant (meaning no present living human beings) would or could be alive today had our ancestral mothers not all slept next to their infants for physiological regulation, management, protection and to be breastfed throughout the night. It is one thing to delineate which kinds of “co-sleeping” in diverse settings are safer or less safe or not safe at all, therein acknowledging the diverse types of co-sleeping and the need to educate parents to the known factors whic
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