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Children 'should sleep with parents until five'
"Donna Metler" ) writes:
Let's use a little common sense here. It doesn't matter whether deaths when a child is in a parent's bed are due to smothering/suffocation or SIDS-the baby is still dead. You have to weigh the risk factors for you between the two. In my case, I didn't feel I could co-sleep safely, so I felt having the baby in a controlled crib was better than having her next to my uncontrolled (I am very capable of rolling on a cat while asleep and have fallen out of bed before), requiring having my head elevated in order to sleep at all body. Good for you -- very sensible. You responded to awareness of your own tendencies. One can still sleep with baby nearby: in a crib beside the bed, for example. Baby can still hear parents breathe, and perhaps one could have one hand touching baby sometimes, when baby seems to want/need it. |
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Children 'should sleep with parents until five'
Catherine Woodgold wrote:
Vitamin C deficiency seems to be a major cause of SIDS. (See "Every Second Child" by A. Kalokerinos.) Vaccines apparently contribute to vitamin C deficiency. Vitamin C gets replaced by anaprovolene in the Star Trek universe, apparently. Michelle Flutist |
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Children 'should sleep with parents until five'
The way I normally sleep is that I roll from one side or
the other onto my back, not onto my stomach. So if I'm lying on my side with someone lying in front of me, that person is in a place I wouldn't roll onto anyway even if there were no-one there. After I gave birth to my first baby, I didn't sleep for 3 days. Apparently there are hormones that tend to influence mothers not to sleep as much or to sleep more lightly in the first few days after giving birth. This lighter sleep makes it easier to learn to sleep with awareness of the baby so one doesn't roll onto the baby. I think fathers can learn not to roll onto a baby, too: they just don't have the advantage of hormonal changes that help in the learning process. Or not as much. I think father's hormones do change in response to the actions of looking after a baby, but not as much as the mother's since she has the physical signal of being pregnant. Or maybe some people don't even need to learn: they already have the habit of not rolling onto people. One starts to roll, feels a person there, and stops. Some people have slept with pets, so they would have some idea as to whether they tend to roll onto them. Not rolling off the edge of the bed is also a good sign. |
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