– How does co sleeping cause SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)?
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Very, very recently in the grand scheme of humans, an unbelievable percentage of babies died. No one wants to think about it, but through a variety of interventions and medical science tons and tons of babies who would’ve never made it 100 years ago are comfortably making it to adulthood.
Onto SIDS and co-sleeping; the current advice is to always have babies sleeping on their backs, whereas co-sleeping would generally be on their side or front. Believe it or not, this advice is to keep the baby a little bit uncomfortable. To really dumb it down, SIDS is typically a compromised baby dying in a deep sleep, so we keep them uncomfortable making them more likely to wake up and fight it
The other uncomfortable thing with co-sleeping is if an either drunk, on drugs, or severely sleep deprived parent rolls onto the baby, they might not notice
This isn’t meant to be me on an anti co-sleeping soapbox, just me trying to provide some context. The flip side being a parent might notice a lot quicker if something is off while co-sleeping
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