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Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by TheInterceptor
Who created this message? And why are you listening to the advice of an entity you have never met or identified over parental instinct?
Originally posted by TheInterceptor
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by TheInterceptor
Who created this message? And why are you listening to the advice of an entity you have never met or identified over parental instinct?
This message is one of safety and it is age old. My Parental instinct is telling me to override my selfish desire to sleep with my baby so i can ensure i wont kill him while I sleep. Its called being responsible. You dont have to look to hard to find many cases about parents smothering their kids while they sleep, or dropping them out of bed. The latter of which has happend to every parent that i personally know that has slept with their kids and guess what, they stopped the foolishness after that.
Do what you want, but any credible doctor you go to will tell you the same and if you ever went to a parenting class they would highly suggest that you do not sleep with your baby.
Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Originally posted by TheInterceptor
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by TheInterceptor
Who created this message? And why are you listening to the advice of an entity you have never met or identified over parental instinct?
This message is one of safety and it is age old. My Parental instinct is telling me to override my selfish desire to sleep with my baby so i can ensure i wont kill him while I sleep. Its called being responsible. You dont have to look to hard to find many cases about parents smothering their kids while they sleep, or dropping them out of bed. The latter of which has happend to every parent that i personally know that has slept with their kids and guess what, they stopped the foolishness after that.
Do what you want, but any credible doctor you go to will tell you the same and if you ever went to a parenting class they would highly suggest that you do not sleep with your baby.
No.. Many credible doctors will tell you that co-sleeping encourages good emotional growth, helps to regulate baby's sleeping, and as has been posted many times in this thread, will REDUCE your child's chances of falling victim to SIDS.
I'm not going to tell you that your method is wrong, because it's your choice.. But I will tell you that your assertions here are wrong. If you take safety into consideration and make sure your bed is up to par, co-sleeping is healthier and safer than making baby sleep in a separate room, all alone.edit on 16-11-2011 by TinkerHaus because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by TheInterceptor
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by TheInterceptor
Who created this message? And why are you listening to the advice of an entity you have never met or identified over parental instinct?
This message is one of safety and it is age old. My Parental instinct is telling me to override my selfish desire to sleep with my baby so i can ensure i wont kill him while I sleep. Its called being responsible. You dont have to look to hard to find many cases about parents smothering their kids while they sleep, or dropping them out of bed. The latter of which has happend to every parent that i personally know that has slept with their kids and guess what, they stopped the foolishness after that.
Do what you want, but any credible doctor you go to will tell you the same and if you ever went to a parenting class they would highly suggest that you do not sleep with your baby.
Originally posted by TheInterceptor
Originally posted by TinkerHaus
Originally posted by TheInterceptor
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by TheInterceptor
Who created this message? And why are you listening to the advice of an entity you have never met or identified over parental instinct?
This message is one of safety and it is age old. My Parental instinct is telling me to override my selfish desire to sleep with my baby so i can ensure i wont kill him while I sleep. Its called being responsible. You dont have to look to hard to find many cases about parents smothering their kids while they sleep, or dropping them out of bed. The latter of which has happend to every parent that i personally know that has slept with their kids and guess what, they stopped the foolishness after that.
Do what you want, but any credible doctor you go to will tell you the same and if you ever went to a parenting class they would highly suggest that you do not sleep with your baby.
No.. Many credible doctors will tell you that co-sleeping encourages good emotional growth, helps to regulate baby's sleeping, and as has been posted many times in this thread, will REDUCE your child's chances of falling victim to SIDS.
I'm not going to tell you that your method is wrong, because it's your choice.. But I will tell you that your assertions here are wrong. If you take safety into consideration and make sure your bed is up to par, co-sleeping is healthier and safer than making baby sleep in a separate room, all alone.edit on 16-11-2011 by TinkerHaus because: (no reason given)
Well you can listen to your doctors and ill listen to the good ones.
Co-Sleeping Research
The physiological effects of sleep-sharing are finally being studied in sleep laboratories that are set up to mimic, as much as possible, the home bedroom. Over the past few years, nearly a million dollars of government research money has been devoted to sleep-sharing research. These studies have all been done on mothers and infants ranging from two to five months in age. Here are the preliminary findings based on mother-infant pairs studied in the sleep-sharing arrangement versus the solitary-sleeping arrangement:
1. Sleep-sharing pairs showed more synchronous arousals than when sleeping separately. When one member of the pair stirred, coughed, or changed sleeping stages, the other member also changed, often without awakening.
2. Each member of the pair tended to often, but not always, be in the same stage of sleep for longer periods if they slept together.
3. Sleep-sharing babies spent less time in each cycle of deep sleep. Lest mothers worry they will get less deep sleep; preliminary studies showed that sleep-sharing mothers didn't get less total deep sleep.
4. Sleep-sharing infants aroused more often and spent more time breastfeeding than solitary sleepers, yet the sleep-sharing mothers did not report awakening more frequently.
5. Sleep-sharing infants tended to sleep more often on their backs or sides and less often on their tummies, a factor that could itself lower the SIDS risk.
6. A lot of mutual touch and interaction occurs between the sleep-sharers. What one does affects the nighttime behavior of the other.
Even though these studies are being conducted in sleep laboratories instead of the natural home environment, it's likely that within a few years enough mother-infant pairs will be studied to scientifically validate what insightful mothers have long known: something good and healthful occurs when mothers and babies share sleep.
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by getreadyalready
No offense getready, but its a panda. And a panda that was taken from its natural habitat, artificially inseminated, and put behind glass. There is nothing natural about that panda's life. Why would its natural instincts suddenly kick in?
It is the first time city officials have set such a target for reducing the rate, aiming to improve the city's status as one of the worst for infants in the nation. The goal is to reduce the black infant mortality rate by 15%, and the city's overall rate by 10%.
It is just a uneducated, unresearched ad.
Three out of every four Milwaukee County babies who suffocated in their sleep or died of SIDS in 2007 and 2008 were sleeping with an adult or with another child, according to a first-of-its kind analysis of infant fatalities. Co-sleeping was a factor in 10 of the 11 suffocations that occurred in the county during that time period. It was a factor in 28 out of 40 deaths attributed to sudden infant death syndrome.
If you feel you didn't have the instincts, and it made you too nervous, you were probably right.
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected, sudden death of a child under age 1 in which an autopsy does not show an explainable cause of death.