Co Sleeping
Kamy Snodgras
English 10:45 Tues.& Thurs.
Stephen Dufrechou
12/03/13
Benefits of co-sleeping with your infant for the first six months For as long as we can remember we are always told to never sleep with your baby that you could suffocate them by rolling over on them or what not. In a study by Davies, he found that prior to the 1700's co-sleeping was a normal thing around the world. It was not until the 1800's when the western society moved away from co-sleeping to an independent sleeping arrangement claiming the child will be too attached and have security problems; you will never get the child to sleep in their own bed; the child will not learn independence; or, the child could suffocate in various ways. Well, I agree with James McKenna, a world-renowned expert on sudden infant death, when he said, “ The danger is not in bed-sharing itself but in how it is practiced-an important distinction that must be made.” When co-sleeping goes wrong the details of the episode are never talked about and how the prevention of such a unfaithful accident could have been prevented. Many of time the parent was sleeping on a couch which pins the child to the back of it preventing oxygen flow, while others may have been under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, these are obviouse No-No's but many of times parents become over exhausted and sleeping with an infant is very dangerous as for the body sleeps heavier losing aware of the small bed partner.
Studies by Anthropologist over the decades have studied the sleeping habits of mother and infant in animals species and humans found that the mother and child who do practice safe co sleeping have a “secure attachment relationship”.( Bowlby, 1953 cited in Davies, 1995). The anthropologist believe from their observation that the emotional security of the infant benefits from the skin-to-skin contact during the night. (Davies, 1995). In a study of an infant sleeping independently has an attachment issue to a
English 10:45 Tues.& Thurs.
Stephen Dufrechou
12/03/13
Benefits of co-sleeping with your infant for the first six months For as long as we can remember we are always told to never sleep with your baby that you could suffocate them by rolling over on them or what not. In a study by Davies, he found that prior to the 1700's co-sleeping was a normal thing around the world. It was not until the 1800's when the western society moved away from co-sleeping to an independent sleeping arrangement claiming the child will be too attached and have security problems; you will never get the child to sleep in their own bed; the child will not learn independence; or, the child could suffocate in various ways. Well, I agree with James McKenna, a world-renowned expert on sudden infant death, when he said, “ The danger is not in bed-sharing itself but in how it is practiced-an important distinction that must be made.” When co-sleeping goes wrong the details of the episode are never talked about and how the prevention of such a unfaithful accident could have been prevented. Many of time the parent was sleeping on a couch which pins the child to the back of it preventing oxygen flow, while others may have been under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, these are obviouse No-No's but many of times parents become over exhausted and sleeping with an infant is very dangerous as for the body sleeps heavier losing aware of the small bed partner.
Studies by Anthropologist over the decades have studied the sleeping habits of mother and infant in animals species and humans found that the mother and child who do practice safe co sleeping have a “secure attachment relationship”.( Bowlby, 1953 cited in Davies, 1995). The anthropologist believe from their observation that the emotional security of the infant benefits from the skin-to-skin contact during the night. (Davies, 1995). In a study of an infant sleeping independently has an attachment issue to a