A kisbabák altatása: a szülők egyik legnagyobb kihívása

Or in English:

Putting the baby to sleep – one of the biggest challenges of parents

At least that of small babies’ parents. Other challenges will come later of course…

Anna Tamás, teacher, mother of three teenagers, member of Attachment Parentin International

Babies’ sleeping is a recurring topic on WMN Magazine. But why is it so cross-cutting?

Because when babies’ parents don’t sleep in an adult rhythm for several months or even years, they might become extremely exhausted.

Not to mention when they have to stand in the gap in ’stereo” with two children or more.

When it is really standing: parents stand up from the bed and have to go to the children’s room, take the baby out, feed her, put her back, go back to  the room, go to bed… and after a while stand up again… then it is really difficult physically and mentally too.

But how was it in older times? How does it work in the third world? How does it work in extended families?

The separated sleep of babies is a modern phenomenon in the western world. 100-150 years ago, families couldn’t afford several rooms in a house. Or heating more than one room by night. Family members slept together in the same room, or even in the same bed.

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Nowadays, parents who opt for sleeping together with their babies will have different quality of sleeping than those presented above.

Co-sleeping or bedsharing provide the opportunity to meet babies needs by night too and to get more sleep in the same time.

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Advisory board member of API, Dr William Sears’ book on Nighttime parenting is translated and published in Hungarian too. On his website, dr. Sears lists the do’s and don’t’s for cosleeping safely. https://www.askdrsears.com/topics/health-concerns/sleep-problems/sleep-safety/cosleeping-safely

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It is important that the new parents dare to believe that how and where the family sleeps is personal. Extended family members and other visitors don’t have much say in it.