Sleeping on sofas increases the risk of sudden infant death syndrome and other sleep-related deaths.
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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Motherhood almost makes you lose yourself. Almost, because you find yourself with every touch of baby's soft skin, cheek to cheek. Almost, because you find yourself with every gaze held in those deep, pool-like eyes. |
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Teens who skimp on sleep could be setting themselves up for obesity just a few years later, a new study suggests. |
Mainstream parenting media are asserting once again that the cry-it-out sleep paradigm is harmless to babies—this time in the form of a two-paragraph morsel as one of the “sleep myths” Parents magazine “sets straight” in “Rest Assured” (J Read more |
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Many teens from lower- and middle-income homes get too little sleep, potentially adding to the problems of kids already at risk for health issues, new research finds. |
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Meaghan is angry. Her emotions have run the gamut over the past few months since her three-month-old baby died – from shock and disbelief to contemplating suicide because her pain has been too much to bear. |
Pediatricians and public health officials have long warned that “co-sleeping,” or sharing a bed with an infant, is unsafe. |
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Over the last 20 years, the number of parents sharing a bed with their infants has doubled. |
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