Comment by cjrp
2 years ago
Has SIDS been linked to co-sleeping? I thought the risks of co-sleeping were more around accidentally rolling on or suffocating the baby.
2 years ago
Has SIDS been linked to co-sleeping? I thought the risks of co-sleeping were more around accidentally rolling on or suffocating the baby.
That is also what we were told after birth.
My personal opinion is that the advantages of co-sleeping far outweigh the risks. It is much less stressful for both the parents and the baby. My wife simply slept topless, turned (half-sleeping) to our baby whenever it was crying, and immediately fell back asleep.
Yeah, we coslept as well. We don't drink or do drugs, so we weren't in that risk group. Neither of us has been the type to fall out of bed (which would indicate lack of physical awareness during sleep). We put the baby between us, so she wouldn't roll off. We kept the room warm so there wouldn't be a risk of heavy quilts suffocating her.
And it was fantastic. No crying, no separation anxiety. Feeding was easy, so we all slept well.
Same experience. We made sure the room temperature was warm enough to not use blankets (no risk of suffocation), but not too hot for the baby.
We went from sleeping 2 hours per WEEK (I cannot describe to you how it felt), to getting 8 hours on the first co-sleep.
Never looked back.
works for dad too
Newer research shows a good chunk of SIDS cases actually _are_ likely suffocation from various causes.
That’s why the SIDS reduction measures are mostly ‘sleep on the back, in an empty crib, with nothing soft around’.
But it’s much easier to tell a grieving parent that there’s nothing they could have done, than that their baby got unlucky and suffocated to death.
You are speaking facts, but it runs into the medical problem of “overdiagnosis” where the treatment can be worse than the disease.
Swaddling the baby and forcing it to sleep on its back, may have a tiny statistical benefit for SIDS, but it causes tons of problems at a time when people are taxed to the limit of their abilities.
We could reduce the incident of breast cancer by removing every woman’s breasts, but that would be an improper risk assessment.
The biggest factor linked to SIDS is poverty, and after that it’s stuff like going to bed while under the influence of drugs and smoking.
And as soon as your baby can turn itself you have no more influence in which position it sleeps anyway.
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The problem is that sids is vague, sometimes is used to protect the parents from murder accusation because overly tired