Co-sleeping is the practice of having an infant in bed with you while you sleep. Co-sleeping has been done for a long time now in non-western cultures. It is one of the most controversial parenting topics. Our culture has now been using the method of co-sleeping for a short while, making it more and more popular. Most of the web sources that I looked at were raving about co-sleeping, giving it only positive feedback. Some however, were just the opposite, warning about the negative habits that can occur. In this reflection, I will be examining two websites. One that is positive, and the other will be negative. My first website is “Today's Parent”. “The study, recently published in Pediatrics, claims that the 69 percent of infants who died from SIDS were bed-sharing at the time of their death.” The point that Today’s Parent is trying to get across, is that co-sleeping has been shown to result in higher SIDS cases. The website mentions that they didn’t take any other variables into consideration such as smoking or drugs.
The Canadian Pediatric Society recommends that children should sleep alone in cribs up until the age of 6 months. There …show more content…
I Know that personally, I am a deep sleeper. So I would be afraid of rolling over on my child. None of the articles I looked at mentioned that possibility. So in that sense, my opinion changed because that fear isn’t as relevant. I still do not believe that co-sleeping is a good idea. I think it could cause a lot of dependency issues in regards to sleep which is never healthy. When I babysit a 1 and 3 year old into the late hours, I can never get them to fall asleep because their parents never forced them to sleep on their own. They have it burned into their brain that when it’s night time and they cry, their mother will instantly come and cuddle them. believe that children need to learn to sleep on their own in order to avoid dependency
The Canadian Pediatric Society recommends that children should sleep alone in cribs up until the age of 6 months. There …show more content…
I Know that personally, I am a deep sleeper. So I would be afraid of rolling over on my child. None of the articles I looked at mentioned that possibility. So in that sense, my opinion changed because that fear isn’t as relevant. I still do not believe that co-sleeping is a good idea. I think it could cause a lot of dependency issues in regards to sleep which is never healthy. When I babysit a 1 and 3 year old into the late hours, I can never get them to fall asleep because their parents never forced them to sleep on their own. They have it burned into their brain that when it’s night time and they cry, their mother will instantly come and cuddle them. believe that children need to learn to sleep on their own in order to avoid dependency