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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).

A style of parenting inspired by Jean Liedloff's book The Continuum Concept, characterised by co-sleeping, carrying your baby, breastfeeding on demand and trusting that he/she has an innate knowledge of what is safe or unsafe. An extension of Attachment Parenting, whose advocates tend not to include that concept of trust.

A style of parenting characterised by co-sleeping, carrying your baby and breastfeeding on demand.