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Stress reliever “Infants are born helpless, and they’re not able to do anything other than cry for the first three or four months. So, when you’re co-sleeping, you can respond to the crying immediately. And you don’t have to wake up -- you can feed and do all sorts of things while you’re half asleep. The parents sleep better and are less stressed, and when parents are less stressed, so is their baby. In most non-modern cultures, people aren’t so stressed out about the whole thing.
Uncontrolled environment “There’s just so much that can happen in an adult bed -- it’s not a controlled environment. Bed sharing itself is not the issue, but it’s all the things that make it unsafe. We don’t know how to make it safe. No one does. Even if the baby is sleeping in the parents’ bed with no pillows and no blankets and the parents aren’t smoking, while the risk of death is decreased it’s still higher than if the baby is in a crib.
Risks and Benefits of Co-Sleeping
No Babies In the Bed Dr. Rachel Moon, MD Pediatrician at Children's National Medical Center