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Another Death Due To Co-Sleeping....
Another reason I never co-slept with my children...
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This was death due to electrocution. Sounds like a very unsafe environment and not a safe way to cosleep.
The rules of safe cosleeping were not followed here. Suggesting that it was cosleeping that killed the baby gives those of us who do it safely a bad rap. -
I know... but if something so rare like this can happen... WOW! Freaks me out!!Comment
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Co-Sleeping Can Save Lives if Done Properly
It is always sad to hear about the death of a child due to any circumstance, especially while sleeping in the loving bed of their parents. But I think co-sleeping gets a bad rap. If you cosleep safely and properly, infant deaths will not occur.
An article about how co-sleeping saved a child's life:
Another article about the benefits of co-sleeping
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An exerpt from the second article:
•Researchers have discovered that the lining of the nose is rich in receptors that may affect breathing – it is proposed that mother’s breath and/or smell stimulates some of these receptors, and thus affects baby’s breathing… one of the main gases in an exhaled breath is carbon dioxide, which acts as a respiratory stimulant.
•Researchers have recently measured the exhaled air coming from a mother’s nose while sleeping with her baby. They confirmed this logical suspicion that the closer baby is to mother’s nose, the higher is the carbon dioxide concentration of the exhaled air, and the concentration of carbon dioxide between the face-to-face pair is possibly just the right amount to stimulate breathing
Perhaps these mutual arousals allow mother and baby to “practice” waking up in response to a potential life-threatening event. (If SIDS is a defect in arousability from sleep, perhaps this practice would help baby’s sleep arousability mature.)
Dr. Sear’s study revealed that babies breathed better when sleeping next to mom than when sleeping alone:
•Infant’s breathing & heart rate were more regular during shared sleep, and there were fewer “dips,” or low points in respiration and blood oxygen from stop-breathing episodes.
•On the nights that babe & mom slept together, there were no dips in baby’s blood oxygen.
•On the nights when babe slept alone, there were 132 dips.
•By 5 months of age, the physiological differences between shared and solo sleep were less.
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Other reasons to consider some type of co-sleeping arrangement
(whether babe is in mom’s bed, or beside her in a co-sleeping bed):
•Many babies need help going back to sleep because of a developmental quirk called object or person permanence. When something or someone is out of sight, it is out of mind. Most babies less than a year old do not have the ability to think of mother as existing somewhere else. When babies awaken alone in a crib, they become frightened and often unable to resettle back into deep sleep. Because of this separation anxiety, they learn that sleep is a fearful state to remain in …Comment
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Completely heartbreaking situation but to imply that the child's death was because of co-sleeping is totally unfair.
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The baby didn't die from co-sleeping. She died from electrocution.
I never co-slept. As a young mother, my pedi said to NEVER, EVER bring my daughters into our bed, not for any reason, especially not to nurse. He also said to keep the bassinet in whatever room the child would be sleeping in, don't bring it into our bedroom. Being young, I listened and followed what he said. Doctors know everything, right?
Having said that, millions of parents world-wide successfully co-sleep with their infants without any issues.Comment
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Everyone said exactly what I was going to say.
Better to think twice about how your phrase your post OP, so you dont come off uninformed.Comment
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This is MY opinion only. I respect that others feel differently.
STATEMENT : "I co-slept with my baby and he/she was just fine."
SAME AS.....
STATEMENT: "My grandfather was a smoker and lived til he was 97, so
cigarettes are perfectly harmless."
In this case...the child was electrocuted. But death could easily have been suffocation as it sounds like the parents were not very responsible.Comment
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I think the OP said co sleeping because had the baby been in a crib or bassinet it wouldn't have happened? Just a though...Comment
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I totally 100% agree with meeko! Just because you have done it, doesn't mean it is safe.Comment
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I coslept and I did it safely.
There are safe and unsafe ways to cosleep. It is a very intimate, personal choice, and I was judged by people, and I was applauded by people.
I don't judge people for not cosleeping.Comment
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