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Co-sleeping Positions

Keep Baby Safe in Your Co-sleeping Environment

By Lisa A. Goldstein

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Logistics

When it comes to specific sleeping positions, figuring this out will likely be trial and error for your family. What works for another may not work for you. Kim, for example, barricaded the side of her bed. Since her husband was more nervous about overlying, at first Kim made sure to be between him and the baby, or have the baby between them when Kim was awake and vigilant. After a while, he realized that neither of them would roll over on the baby. They also tried putting her in a Snuggle Nest between them, but she wasn't crazy about it. "And, as far as I was concerned, that negated the whole purpose of co-sleeping, which is cuddling," Kim says.

Kim learned to sleep with her daughter next to her, with her head at nursing level on the bed, with her arm protectively around her instead of at her side. Sometimes when the baby slept between her parents, around 6 months or so, she liked to turn herself perpendicular to them so her head would be against one of them and her feet against the other. Once she was old enough to move around and potentially fall out of bed, the Kims moved her spot permanently to the middle of the bed between them. They then put the mattress on the floor until she was big enough to climb up onto a raised bed on her own.

Co-sleeping is advantageous when it comes to breastfeeding. "Babies will breastfeed more often with less disruption to Mothers' sleep – and the baby will receive more sleep as will the mother compared with solitary sleeping breastfeeding babies – as recent studies show," Dr. McKenna says. Breastfeeding is enhanced, since there is more breastfeeding with co-sleeping, which can be translated into less disease and morbidity.


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