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Co-sleeping Positions

Keep Baby Safe in Your Co-sleeping Environment

By Lisa A. Goldstein

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Creating a Safe Co-sleeping Environment

Dr. McKenna lists some other tips to ensure your child's safety:

  • Put infants on firm, clean surfaces, in the absence of smoke, under light, comfortable blanketing.
  • Don't cover heads.
  • Don't place stuffed animals or pillows around infants.
  • Do not place infants on top of a pillow.
  • Avoid sheepskins or other fluffy material – especially bean bag mattresses.
  • Avoid waterbeds.
  • Make sure mattress tightly intersects bed frame.
  • Don't put infants to sleep on couch or sofa, with or without adults, as they can slip down (face first) into the crevice, or get wedged against the back.
  • Make sure there's no space between the bed and adjoining wall where Baby can roll and become trapped.
  • Make sure mattress and bedding are tight fitting to headboard.
  • Do not place Baby on stomach.
  • Don't put infants a year or less to bed with other children.
  • Avoid co-sleeping on same surface if you're on sedatives, medications, drugs, intoxicated or excessively unable to arouse.
  • Excessively long hair on the mother should be tied up to prevent entanglement around the infant's neck.

"Just as babies can die from SIDS in a risk-free solitary environment, it remains possible for a baby to die in a risk-free co-sleeping/bed sharing environment," Dr. McKenna says. "Just make sure, as much as this is possible, that you would not assume that, if the baby died, that either you or your spouse would think that bed-sharing contributed to the death, or that one of you really suffocated (by accident) the infant."


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