Introduction
Where should a baby sleep? Is it safe for them to co-sleep in the same bed as the parents or is it safe for them to sleep in a crib? There has been such a big controversy about what the best option of where and how an infant should sleep. Co-sleeping is said to be a practice that can increase the risk of SIDS or fatal accidents. However, despite the opposition from many medical professionals, many parents are increasingly adopting to night-time infant patterns that include co-sleeping, especially by mothers that choose to breast feed (Mckenna, McDade, 2005). Is the risk of sudden infant death high with co-sleeping? There are so many question and many answer that contradict the other. In this paper I have researched two different articles that contradict what the other one says about co-sleeping. James J Mckenna and Thomas McDade explains why it is best to co-sleep and Edwin A. Mitchell explains why there needs to be a stronger warning why you should not co-sleep.
Infants Should Never Sleep Alone
James J. Mckenna and Thomas McDade, in 2005 wrote an article together about why babies should never sleep alone. Most USA and other western infants die from SIDS or fatal accidents during solitary sleep outside the supervision of a parent. …show more content…
Mitchell, wrote an article for The New Zealand Medical Journal about sudden infant death and co-sleeping and how it is not safe to co-sleep. More than 50% of SIDS occur while an infant is sleeping with parents in the same bed. SIDS declined in the early 1990’s because of the recommendation to no place infants to sleep on their fronts. This gradual decline in SIDS mortality in the late 1990s and early 2000s has been because of the change from infants being placed on their sides to sleep, to now being placed on their spine to sleep position. However, there are still around 50- to 60 cases of SIDS a year in New Zealand. Each of these death is a tragedy and could have been avoidable (Mitchell,
Where should a baby sleep? Is it safe for them to co-sleep in the same bed as the parents or is it safe for them to sleep in a crib? There has been such a big controversy about what the best option of where and how an infant should sleep. Co-sleeping is said to be a practice that can increase the risk of SIDS or fatal accidents. However, despite the opposition from many medical professionals, many parents are increasingly adopting to night-time infant patterns that include co-sleeping, especially by mothers that choose to breast feed (Mckenna, McDade, 2005). Is the risk of sudden infant death high with co-sleeping? There are so many question and many answer that contradict the other. In this paper I have researched two different articles that contradict what the other one says about co-sleeping. James J Mckenna and Thomas McDade explains why it is best to co-sleep and Edwin A. Mitchell explains why there needs to be a stronger warning why you should not co-sleep.
Infants Should Never Sleep Alone
James J. Mckenna and Thomas McDade, in 2005 wrote an article together about why babies should never sleep alone. Most USA and other western infants die from SIDS or fatal accidents during solitary sleep outside the supervision of a parent. …show more content…
Mitchell, wrote an article for The New Zealand Medical Journal about sudden infant death and co-sleeping and how it is not safe to co-sleep. More than 50% of SIDS occur while an infant is sleeping with parents in the same bed. SIDS declined in the early 1990’s because of the recommendation to no place infants to sleep on their fronts. This gradual decline in SIDS mortality in the late 1990s and early 2000s has been because of the change from infants being placed on their sides to sleep, to now being placed on their spine to sleep position. However, there are still around 50- to 60 cases of SIDS a year in New Zealand. Each of these death is a tragedy and could have been avoidable (Mitchell,