Bed Sharing After 6 Months
For the first 6 months the safest place for your baby to sleep is in a cot crib or moses basket in your room beside your bed and in the same room as you for all sleeps.
Bed sharing after 6 months. Rupal Christine Gupta MD Date reviewed. The study analyzed data from 178 infants and their parents from a mix of questionnaires and in-person visits at term and then again at three six and 18 months. If your child is crying and keeping you awake it is an aggravating time.
Results demonstrate that bedsharing practices covary with breastfeeding practices and that a single model of bedsharing behaviour does not adequately reflect the experience of all infants. Rigda RS McMillen IC Buckley P 2000 Bed sharing patterns in a cohort of Australian infants during the first six months after birth J. No associations between bed-sharing during the first 6 months and infant-mother attachment and infant behavioral.
The Baby Sleep Site team is 100 committed to respecting your parenting goals and your familys sleeping arrangements and we will work with you to improve your childs sleep no matter what those arrangements look like. Parents sleep in the same bed with the child. Moving to a crib by 6 months of age is usually easier for both parents and baby before the bed-sharing habit is ingrained and other developmental issues such as separation anxiety come into play.
Hollyjc95 I made that mistake too with my first. She didnt get out of my bed till almost 11. This may be of significance in studies which examine the relationship between bed sharing and.
Bed sharing can be dangerous for babies. Nov 6 2021 at 435 PM. Some of my friends have suggested bedsharing but my bed doesnt meet many of the requirements that Ive read - its a pillowtop fairly high off the ground and Im not EBF formula during the day and breastmilk at night.
The sleepwake behaviour and place of infant sleep were recorded for infants aged between 2 and 24 weeks. Bed-sharing is not quality time. We have found that bed sharing acts as a proxy for increased close parental proximity during the first six months of life.

