To co-sleep or not to co-sleep is a very personal choice - here are some expert tips on how to co-sleep so you can both sleep safe and sound
But of the 700,000 babies born each year in England and Wales, half will have slept in their parents’ bed – with either one or both of their parents – by the time they’re three months old.
In 2016, 219 babies died of SIDS in the UK: 0.03 of all births. It’s estimated that half were in cots or Moses baskets and half were co-sleeping. ‘But of those co-sleeping babies, 90% were described as sleeping in a largely preventable, hazardous situation,’ says Jenny. ‘In other words, they weren’t co-sleeping‘It’s important to remember that SIDS is rare,’ Jenny adds. ‘In the UK it’s gone down by 79 per cent since 1991, which is the year when the Back To Sleep campaign began.
Don’t put him on top of a duvet – it’s too puffy a surface for a baby to lie on. It can also trap too much heat underneath him. ‘The easiest thing to do is to dress your baby in an age-and-temperature appropriate bodysuit and sleep bag and lie him on the mattress, well away from any bedding or pillows,’ says Jenny.
‘There are also particular occasions when your baby should not share your bed,’ says Jenny. ‘These are when you – or your partner – are in any way less alert than normal. If you’ve taken alcohol or drugs; if you’re on medication, including medication for simple things like coughs and colds, that makes you drowsy; if you’re extremely tired – put your baby to sleep in his cot.
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