Some people would ask what is the big deal about co-sleeping. When having the right tools and education co-sleeping can be safe. On the other hand, not having the right tools and education can make co-sleeping no safe, and the child could end up as a SIDS baby. What is co-sleeping, co-sleeping refers to many different ways babies sleep in close emotional and physical contact with their parents, usually with in arms reach. As a parent and a childcare worker I hear both the good sides of co-sleeping and the sides of safe sleeping. I myself co-sleep with my daughter, but she also sleeps in her bed sometimes, really depends on where she wants to sleep. I feel safer with her sleeping with my only because young mom …show more content…
Sleeping with your child is normal. Co-sleeping extends our need for infant-parent closeness. When sleeping with your child there is that bond that you build. Children build a better sense of protection. Sleeping in close reach of a parent reassured the baby that there is a constant caregivers’ presence, but the touches, smell, movement, and warmth. Before the child is verbal it is important to get the child when he/she cries, when co-sleeping you are right there when they cry and can figure out what they need pretty fast. Co-sleeping is very important to breastfeeding. For breastfeeding mother co-sleeping can ease interruptions caused by night time feedings. Co-sleeping is part of a loving; supportive environment that parents produce for their children. That supportive environment will give them the confidence to grow into a social, happy, loving life. Not just the child gets benefits from co-sleeping but the parents do to. Parents get more sleep, because they don’t have to get up and walk to the baby’s room to breast feed they can just wake up feed, and when the child is done feeding they can go back to sleep. Parents decide co-sleeping “peaceful”, “comforting”, “loving”, and “protective”. One mother said “I work in an office all day long; co-sleeping is a way to