Research Paper On Co-Sleeping
Sleeping with a baby seemed normal to me. I never thought about dangers or how it could go wrong. Right now I have 5 nephews, and each of them I know their mother ended up sleeping in the same bed, or on the couch with them, when they were breastfeeding. Even when I baby sat, I would sometimes fall asleep with them in my arms when they were young. There are many different views on co-sleeping, and the detriment/ benefits of it. Co-sleeping is defined as a parent and baby share a bed, according to the March of Dimes. There are obvious reasons why sleeping with your baby could result badly: getting trapped by the bed frame, falling off the bed, being smothered by blankets, or getting rolled on (March of Dimes, 1). But a big question that arose
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But there are many studies that show differently. In the Current Pediatric Review, 2010, Getter and McKenna explain how co-sleeping can reduce the risk of SIDS, ”it influences the infant’s sleep architecture and arousals in beneficial ways and/or the simultaneous opportunity for the caregiver to monitor, detect and respond to infant’s needs, endangerments, or physiological crises” (Gettler and Mckenna, 72). This explains how being in the same room as your baby makes it easier to respond to anything harming your baby. When looking at both sides of the argument, I agree with Gettler and Mckenna. They did not try to scare parents into not sleeping with their baby, but instead understood people will do it no matter what and gave benefits, and alternative ways to co-sleep, such as “roomsharing”. No one is completely sure what causes SIDS and I feel organizations are just using it as a scare tactic to get the mothers to stop sleeping with their baby. I believe these organizations need to look at both sides of the situation and understand why mothers do sleep with their …show more content…
In Sarah Kerrigan’s, Its time to Rethink Co-sleeping she listens to a mother, “’There is no way I would have had the energy to get out of bed 3-5 times per night to go feed [my baby] in another room’ says lee” (Kerrigan, 1). Which would result in the baby getting feed not as much as it could if they were in the same room. All these articles bring up a good point, if you smoke in bed, take medication, or are overly exhausted you should not fall asleep with your baby because it could result in harm. Which is completely understandable, and changed my point of
But there are many studies that show differently. In the Current Pediatric Review, 2010, Getter and McKenna explain how co-sleeping can reduce the risk of SIDS, ”it influences the infant’s sleep architecture and arousals in beneficial ways and/or the simultaneous opportunity for the caregiver to monitor, detect and respond to infant’s needs, endangerments, or physiological crises” (Gettler and Mckenna, 72). This explains how being in the same room as your baby makes it easier to respond to anything harming your baby. When looking at both sides of the argument, I agree with Gettler and Mckenna. They did not try to scare parents into not sleeping with their baby, but instead understood people will do it no matter what and gave benefits, and alternative ways to co-sleep, such as “roomsharing”. No one is completely sure what causes SIDS and I feel organizations are just using it as a scare tactic to get the mothers to stop sleeping with their baby. I believe these organizations need to look at both sides of the situation and understand why mothers do sleep with their …show more content…
In Sarah Kerrigan’s, Its time to Rethink Co-sleeping she listens to a mother, “’There is no way I would have had the energy to get out of bed 3-5 times per night to go feed [my baby] in another room’ says lee” (Kerrigan, 1). Which would result in the baby getting feed not as much as it could if they were in the same room. All these articles bring up a good point, if you smoke in bed, take medication, or are overly exhausted you should not fall asleep with your baby because it could result in harm. Which is completely understandable, and changed my point of