Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotionally

Babies and children have needs at night just as they do during the day; from hunger, loneliness, and fear, to feeling too hot or too cold. They rely on parents to soothe them and help them regulate their intense emotions. Sleep training techniques can have detrimental physiological and psychological effects. Safe co-sleeping has benefits to both babies and parents.

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New Guidelines Acknowledge The Reality: Babies Do Sleep In Mom's Bed "A notable, if subtle, change in sleep guidelines released Monday from the American Academy of Pediatrics acknowledges the reality of those long nights and what parents should do if they can't always follow the guidelines to the letter.	Attachment Parenting International responds to 2016 AAP Statement on Infant Sleep Infants and parents benefit from breastfeeding and sleeping near one another, reducing SIDS risk by 50% Attachment Parenting International responds to 2016 AAP Statement on Infant Sleep
Havoc at Home: Everything you ever wanted (or didn't want) to know about the Family Bed "So this post is just to answer some of the many questions that come from not understanding the concept of co-sleeping. And FYI, not getting into the history, the cultural, the moral, the whatevers about it."	CGBI Awarded Grant for Infant Side-Car Bassinets in US Hospitals "The project objective is to design and develop infant side-car bassinets for US postnatal units. Side-car bassinets are three-sided and lock onto the maternity bedframe, enabling maternal-newborn visual and physical access."
Childhood Bed-Sharing "But it’s not all about economics. There is security in sharing a bed, security that comes with another person very near and possibly the security that comes with touching and being touched.	Bedtime together, beautiful and attached My daughter and I stopped bedsharing a few months ago, just before her 2nd birthday. She was excited to move out of the daybed we shared in her room and into her own toddler bed.
From the family bed to the Peace Corps... Attachment Parenting is worth it in the end If you are reading this after a sleepless night where you were kicked much, or had to get up to comfort your child, be assured: Attachment Parenting will be worth it in the end. Educational and peace-building consultant, and father of 2, David J. Read more	Safe sleep guidelines are failing new parents "I never imagined that I’d be in the position of choosing between endangering my child’s life or neglecting her cries, because I assumed that the AAP’s guidelines would be reasonable to impose. For us, they were not.
Infant Sleep App Infant Sleep Information Source (ISIS) has developed a free interactive smart phone and tablet app that parents can use to access current and evidence based information about infant sleep and safe sleeping environments.	About That Scary Swaddling Study "These are good suggestions, but the idea that swaddling and SIDS are substantially linked is misleading.