definition for: #cosleeping

The practice of allowing/encouraging your baby to sleep with you in the family bed. The idea that co-sleeping is inherently dangerous for babies is a modern fallacy. Parents in ‘developed’ nations have been told they are wrong - and dangerously misguided - if they sleep with their children, even though that means they lose no sleep, breastfeeding is easier, their baby hardly ever cries, sleep hormones are stimulated, the baby's core temperature is regulated by skin-to-skin contact, etc. Cot death is unheard of in cotless cultures from Africa to Asia to South America, but thousands of American and British babies still die every year from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).