Cook Children’s Hospital reported that 30 babies in just 15 months likely died during unsafe sleeping conditions, which often involves sharing a bed with a parent or caregiver and suffocating in the bedding or pillows. NBC News’ Tom Costello has more details on what advice pediatricians are giving parents.
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Loved having an bassinet right next to our bed. Made it easier to care for the infant through the night without waking siblings or risking a rollover accident. As I nodded off nursing, I could slide my youngest into his bed where he’d be safe and still close enough to reach.
I had my baby sleep next to me at two months put he slept on the boppy pillow and it was a pretty big pillow were there was a big cushion in between us and he’s healthy and safe but for the first two months he did sleep on his back on his bed but I think everyone should do what’s best for them❤
Luv it😊
I did the same with my babies that bassinet was right against the side of our bed, close enough so the baby could sleep safely, and I could reach over to comfort the baby if need be. As a very young mother many years ago my mother and grandmother taught me never no matter how tired you are let the baby fall asleep in bed with you and your husband, the risk is too great that one of you may roll over on or accidentally suffocate the baby. Prayers to the parents who lost their sweet lil angels while they were peacefully sleeping, gosh that’s devastating😢💔🙏🏻✝️
@Jennifer Hansen I couldn’t risk it. To each their own… But there is a doctor in my family who warned about this danger plus I’d seen awfully sad news reports like this tragic, but informative story. Heartbreaking this could happen to anyone but truly we can learn and do better from it for our children.
@Gods Girl i’m glad it worked out but the boppy is not safe for sleeping. Just putting this here for others who may not know
I know s many that co sleep with their kids and i always wondered why. While im not a parent this would definitely be a concern of mine.
I have never understood the need to co-sleep. If people really want the baby close by, they can just put the crib in their bedroom. Also, don’t people use baby monitors anymore? This way the baby can have their own room and you can still hear if they cry.
I NEVER slept with my baby or slept with him on my chest. That is just asking for trouble. My baby always slept in his own bassinet next to my bed. When we switched him to his crib, he always slept in an empty crib with tight fitted sheets while wearing a sleep sack. I always put him to sleep on his back, which is why he now has a flat head lol. He’s 2 1/2 now
I get wanting to “snuggle” with your baby and wanting them to form an attachment, but co-sleeping is dangerous! There are much safer ways to bond with your child.
It’s really not. Look up statistics. You have a higher chance of being struck by lightning, and way higher chance of dying in a car accident. Yet you have no worry over putting your baby in a car all the time. Because the media doesn’t report on it.
Such a horrible, sad tragedy for any parent. I can’t count the number of times my daughters fell asleep on my chest while I fell asleep breast feeding in the middle of the night. Luckily I was always a very light sleeper and didn’t stay asleep for long. 😢
People need to learn to listen to what professionals say and quit thinking they know better. Is it really worth the risk? When you’re sleeping, you don’t know what’s going on. It just isn’t safe. Being a parent means making the best decisions that keep your children safe.
Why is it so hard to put baby in bassinet next to your bed????? Are people really this stupid???? Them don’t be a parent if you can’t do things correctly
My God! My heart aches hearing this.😞. Horrible. How sad.😢😢😢
Yeah because this hasn’t been preached for the last 10-20 years at all. They literally make you watch a video on it before you take your newborn home, yet it still happens. We aren’t talking about the occasional time where you doze off while breastfeeding, it’s the repetitive and intentional night time sleeping next to your newborn/infant.
I was told by my baby’s pediatrician not to co-sleep with him but I didn’t understand why his bassinet was so darn hard… He hated to sit and lay in that thing let alone sleep in it! I brought that to the pediatrician’s attention and she said he would get used to it. That never happened! Each night I would put he in there and he would scream like someone was killing him. We both weren’t getting any sleep so I said the heck with it and placed him in bed with me. I removed the sheets and pillows from his side and I’m thankful to God it all worked out! I tried the bassinet and the expensive baby doc sleeper. Nothing worked until I put him on his side of the bed next to me. I think it’s a maternal bond for the baby to naturally gravitate towards being as close as possible to their mothers.
They should’ve suggested trying a different bassinet ❤
@Lulu were biblically?
@Lulu everyone is different if your a light sleeper it shouldn’t be a problem especially if u have a baby your not sleeping much anyway but I think the dad is the main one that shouldn’t sleep with baby usually they are sleeping harder while mom is doing most of the work ❤
@Gods Girl 1 Kings 3:16-28
@Ava Madison because if the newborn accidentally flips over they can suffocate face down on fluffy pillows/mattress
It works great when you’re nursing and not a drunk or addict. Duh. If you’re not nursing and too stupid to be sober, don’t do it
A sober, non nursing person can also roll over on their baby lol. Like for real?
@MadisonB I said if you’re NOT nursing, don’t do it. I have never heard a story of a nursing, sober mother rolling over on her child. Taking pain pills after a C section is not considered sober. Nursing mothers are in tune with their babies even while sleeping. It’s *usually* junkies and drunks who are the problem. Look at any shithole city and the animals that live there and you’ll see lots of cases, like, for real lol
It can happen if you’re tired enough like if you accidentally nod off.
@MadisonB That is highly unlikely though for mothers. There was a cosleeping study in which they observed mothers are acutely aware of their baby’s position relative to themselves even while sleeping. Fathers get this too but only after a period of time of getting accustomed to baby’s presence. So intitially the fathers pose the roll-over risk. Almost all infant suffocation and SIDS cases have a drug/alcohol/excessive bedding/complete lack of common sense component.
With our second child, we purchased a cospeeping cot. It’s smaller than a crib, has adjustable legs, a dropside, and straps that you can attach to the frame of your bed.
This way, your child can still sleep next to you but also in their own space. The dropped side makes it super easy to just roll to the side and grab your baby.
Ours was called the NeXt to Me by Chicco. There might be similar cots on the market.
I will let people take risks they want with their baby without any judgement. Do I understand it? No. Will I judge you? Nope. I will mind my own business and will not cosleep with my own Babies.
My ex mother in law killed my son that way.
I can’t imagine your grief and pain. I am so sorry. 😞
so very sorry.
Please people, LISTEN TO THIS ADVICE!!! Former EMT, an incident like this was my WORST call, and I have seen some bad stuff.
There’s a spike in co-sleeping content on TikTok that probably isn’t helping.
I bed shared with all my babies and will continue to do with any future babies. This thing is by and large a United States issue. Japan bed shares with their babies and their SIDS rate is much lower than ours.
Oh god dont bring in pretend health care problems into this. Dum dum parents is the problem.
I found my baby once beginning to suffocate on her own vomit while on her BACK. She wasn’t sick, she just ‘urped up’ some of the milk she’d been drinking. So it’s not always so simple as one solution. We slept with her always, since I could keep an eye on her. She was normally on her side, which seemed best for her. Just realizing this is possible is important, but no one solution will always work.
Yea, I always put my babies on their tumtums to go to sleep for just that reason. And with a blanket too. Cuz hypothermia causes its own problems.
@here hold this will ya nowadays you can put them in a sleep sack. It’s a wearable blanket, to avoid suffocation.
Exactly. Many parents do not take common sense precautions like keeping pillows, blankets and plushies away from baby (among many other things). There is a right way to do it and a wrong way to do it. Unfortunately some people do it the wrong way and don’t realize. There are many babies who also pass away in their cribs and it could’ve been prevented had the parent been present to notice something was wrong.
Yes. Someday I feel like they’ll be saying sleeping on their back isn’t safe……..
@here hold this will ya what kind of house are you sleeping in that your baby could get hypothermia?? 🤦🏻♀️ just get a sleep sack and/or dress in more layers appropriately
bed sharing is just one type of co-sleeping, and not all co-sleeping is bed sharing, but in America, parents are co-sleeping in the same bed.
Bed sharing is not co sleeping. One means being in the same bed and the other means having the baby’s bed next to yours. Not the same thing at all.
Im sure this happens but let’s talk about how child hood vaccines are responsible for SIDS. Won’t even mention it because it’s a money machine.
This is what happens when stupid ppl have kids. It’s unfortunate but some ppl shouldn’t be breeding to begin with.
I don’t understand how these incidents keep happening in the US, sleeping with babies is a common occurrence in Asia and Africa and nothing untoward happens, in fact, it’s unheard of.
I’m asking myself the same question, it breaks my heart to read about such stories. I’m a South African and even though I buy bassinets and cribs, none of my 4 babies slept on them during the night- they’d scream murder. I’m a cuddler so it works for me, they’re all grown now, 16, 10, 6 and my 1 year old just dozed off in my bed as I’m typing this.
My sincerest condolences to every parent that has lost a child in this manner, blessings.
P.S. We are not downplaying the dangers of co-sleeping, just sharing our personal experiences. God bless and keep every child.
I don’t get it either. Maybe it’s the way you guys do it. Maybe because you guys aren’t intoxicated either.
When my nephew was born, I stayed with my brother and wife for almost a year to help look after the baby, and I had no prior experience. My sis in law used to come home late after work, almost 2 or 3 am, so i got him to bed most nights, we were always careful never to sleep close to the baby, always gave him room to move around, we didn’t swaddle the baby, that’s it, and every two hours we kept an alarm to wake up before he did, so we could feed him, he slept through the night because we didn’t let him wake up, gave him the bottle, changed the diapers and back to sleep for another two hours, he is thirteen now.
I don’t know how I did it, but there was never, NEVER EVER a time where we worried about smothering him while sleeping. It just doesn’t happen. Although we do have people who drink, looking after a child while drunk is a very rare occurrence, it does happen, but even then, babies are never smothered in their sleep. Also, it’s the men who drink, very rarely women, so babies are safe under their mom’s care. I am sorry, but I just find it so hard to comprehend. I was so careful with my nephew, I always left space between me and him so he could move around freely.
My condolences to all the parents who have lost their children this way. It’s really sad.
Edit: Both dad and mom sleep on either side of the baby to make sure the baby doesn’t fall off the bed, that is something that happens, in their absence, after giving enough room for the child to move around, pillows are placed all around the baby. To avoid all this, we removed the cot and placed the mattress on the floor. He never fell off it.
We knew about this 40 years ago. No cure for stupid I guess.
We’ve all seen the picture of our dad laying on the couch taking a nap with us, but sometimes it’s just not worth it ! If you’re feeling woozy please make the Choice to put your child in a crib!
I doubt all of these died during co sleeping, Other countries do this all of the time. Im sure there are other factors that are a possible cause too
Yea, gotta be.
This is the only county that doesn’t cosleep. You can make it safe. You literally have a higher chance of being stuck by lightning than your baby dying from cosleeping (assuming no drugs or alcohol are involved). Yet the media makes it sound like the most dangerous thing ever.
Thank you for this reply…
Parents in the United States do not have enough education. Of course when you are smoking or doing drugs the chances of anything happening to a child increases!…when you’re sleep deprived out of your mind you can’t always think properly…my husband slept out of the bed for a month…mother’s who are nursing and NOT on any drugs have a lower chance of post partum when bed sharing is involved… father’s shouldn’t sleep with babies as they are not in tune enough with the infant…
I have actually woken up when my infant stopped breathing while she was sleeping with me and stirred her to breath. I slept with a very thin blanket on my side holding my baby while she slept on her side!
If she was sleeping in another room I wouldn’t have been able to
I’m wondering if it has something to do with the nature of their beds and mattresses. This is almost a non existant issue in my country and we have hard wooden beds with much tougher mattresses. The only time infants sleep separate is in a rocking cradle when the moms are staying awake
@Aleena Prasannan I really don’t think it’s a huge issue here. I think the media makes it an big issue. And obviously there’s individuals who cosleep unsafely. That’s when you hear about it on the news. It needs to be accepted here and taught how to be done safely. Right now is very taboo, so parents aren’t sure how to do it correctly.
@L. T. Agreed, it is not helpful at all to simply fear monger about co-sleeping, without having a very prolific discussion on exactly what are the dangers that need to be avoided. Evenif we co-sleep, everyone is extremely vigilant in making sure that there is no chance of suffocation, like having a barrier between a sleeping mother and baby, someone always on the watch when a sleep deprived mom is breast feeding, avoiding blankets and such. I guess even the umbrella mosquito nets for babies also acts as an unintentional safety barrier.
I was actually concerned how this report actually suggested having multigenerational families as problematic, when that is exactly what you need to keep a newborn baby and a new mother safe. It is so damaging to vilify poor families who need the help of experienced former mothers to help the most.
@Aleena Prasannan 100%!
how is this not common sense? smh
I totally agree with that, parents should never go to sleep with their baby. My mom did it with me because I would stop breathing due to tonsillitis I had until I turned 2 years old. My mom walked into my room and saw me all blue and she took me to the hospital and they said it was my tonsils were to enlarged.
That was an understatement but parents in all cases should never co sleep with their baby. It’s so hazardous that it will cost suffocating to the baby.
If she followed your logic of never sleeping in bed with your baby, you would be dead.
I don’t see how you’re able to say something like that with personal experience on exactly why you should make up your own mind about what to do with your baby, instead of listening to the same people that pushed other “safe” means of medical practice on EVERYONE and it didn’t turn out so well.
I recently had this conversation with some European friends. It’s the same in Europe that they recommend having separate bed. But in India I have never heard of this being a big issue and it is just normal for the baby to co-sleep. Then I researched and found studies where Indian-Americans (foreign born) have the least of such cases even though they have the highest rate of co-sleeping in the US. There seems to be more reasons that can fuel the SIDS.
I am not saying one method is better or another. Just extremely curious here!
Lol it’s rare for Indians to sleep with their infants
They have something called zoola kept sideways with your bed .
After that when that baby grow a bit , it’s very common to sleep with his / her parents .
In Japan where I’m from co-sleeping was the norm where I was growing up. Big difference with America though is that co-sleeping in Japan was traditionally done on thin floor mattresses (布団 and baby can’t get hurt rolling off and the mattresses don’t really sink in. In America the beds have soft mattresses that sink when you lay on them. That makes a huge difference in sleep for the baby because when I tried to sleep with our son, my body sinking into the mattress made him roll next to me and he couldn’t get up as he was only two months 😱 therefore we used a bassinet to keep him safe. We had a family member lose a baby to SIDS so we’re not taking any risks.
@D B it’s because they have techniques and methods that don’t cause accidents. They won’t roll and accidently crush or skothwr their child, they won’t let the baby roll off the high bed and get hurt.
@D B I’m going to say some thing that’s going to hurt a lot of peoples feelings. The Majority of Americans are overweight and obese.
Could their weight be a factor such as they’re fat is spilling over unbeknownst to them, and when they sleep at suffocates the baby. I was a cosleeper to for a while. The baby wanted to be in the bed and I nursed. A lot of nursing mothers have the baby in the bed. Even though it has its own room and a crib. I like them to delve into the characteristics of these people who are suffocating their babies,be cause I do remember a case, with a relative of a newborn who was morbidly obese and suffocated, her niece, or nephew.
@SlimRollerthey cant release a study like that, it would create biases like fat people cant but if your skinny you can. But this fat person could be a light sleeper closer to the floor & the next skinny one be knocked af w a high @$$ bed.
I’ll continue to bedshare
Crazy since I co slept with my child
I’m going on my second baby and I’m going to get one of those bedside sleepers where the side pulls down. My sons crib was in our room for 3 years I never felt comfortable about co-sleeping. There are just so many worries as a parent my heart breaks for those parents who lost there child from co-sleeping with them. I know sometimes we’re so exhausted and it’s easier to just have them lay with you especially if your breastfeeding 😢
Co sleeping is actually the best and reduces risk of sudden death
co sleeping (in close proximity) and bed sharing/having a baby on your chest are two different things
@j rose they are?
@Trinity Livingston technically, yeah. i mean i’m not an expert but i had my son two years ago so still active on mom apps etc. do a lot of reading and just googled and there is a specific difference but they’re not making that evident in this video. co-sleeping is totally safe, this father bedshared being that the close proximity between he and his baby right on his chest proved to be dangerous
@Trinity Livingston yes, bed sharing is when they’re in the same bed as you. Co sleeping means like having the bassinet next to your bed.
So Sad to hear and such a great information to give to other people. ♥♥♥
You never would think this because so many infants do sleep in the bed with the parents or any other adults.
Rest in Peace to all the infants who tragically died. 🤍🤍🤍❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
I also heard do not put any picture frames on the wall above the crib. Anything could happen where the pictures fall off the wall and into the crib and having the glass break or when infants start to stand up in the crib and can try and grab the frames.
Don’t hang anything above the crib.
Wouldn’t a sleeping sack be dangerous too because they can’t move? Maybe I’m just thinking of state guidelines for daycares but I was told to not put them in sleeping sacks because it constricts their ability to move.
A sleeping sack is generally not restrictive like a swaddle… my kid can even walk i hers.
5 to 10 times higher death rates while on chair/on the couch. Those are the places where you can doze off very easily as a tired parent. Also most people are more cautious about co-sleeping in actual bed at nighttime.
Children have slept next to their mothers safetly for centuries. Safety is the foundation and the right steps of common sense should be taken. Many sids circumstances while co-sleeping are due to underlying causes such as neurotoxin overload due to multiple combo childhood injections, providers are freed of liability so these injections are not investigated or blamed in most situations
Agree. Both my sons breastfed next to me because they fed every 2 hours. You hardly sleep.
In the UK at the birth of my daughter, I received from the NHS a brochure explaining how to co sleep safely with baby, it was incredibly useful and everything went well.
Everything is so capitalistic in USA
Always pushing the race issue.
Get an owlet sock. It saved my daughters life when she was 6 months old and sleeping on her back in a crib. She fell asleep and oxygen levels dropped, the alarm went off and I picked her up. Then her oxygen levels went back to normal.
They’ve been having this warning for decades. How many times does someone have to tell you the same thing over and over when it comes to your own children? Stop cosleeping!!
Not understanding why parents need to sleep with their babies. It makes zero sense to me. It’s an invasion of peace, and if you’re with your partner, it ruins the intimacy.
Exactly
Those poor babies. May they rest and be loved by angels. 😢🤲
What are the stats on children abducted from bed?
My baby is 6 months and I’ve been co-Sleeping with him since because he will NOT sleep anywhere else, he needs constant touch. I don’t sleep with pillows and sleep him where I lay my head and don’t sleep with heavy big blankets I usually sleep with a small blanket and tuck the edges underneath me. I don’t switch sides at night and NEVER go to bed drunk or tipsy and stay away from melatonin. You know if you’re a heavy sleeper or not if you know you are DONT DO IT PLEASE.
a baby (especially newborn) will always sleep better when wrapped up & snuggled next to a chest. Think about where they spent all their time for months. In a small wrapped up, with motions of mothers, warm place, next to a beating heart. Not alone on hard bassinet platform they call a bed for babies.
Same!
Alot of the time they can’t afford a bassinet for the baby
My mom couldn’t and she just put me in a dresser drawer that she put next to her bed.
I made my kids sleep on their side, especially my son because he was colicky and would vomit because of gas. I was afraid to have him sleep on his back because one time I found him choking on his own vomit on his back. So I’m not sure if sleeping on their backs is any better. I agree with not having anything in the crib with the infant as they sleep. And I must say every infant is different because my second child slept on their belly. Even though I placed them on their back or side, I would find them on their belly which blew my mind.
I have no doubt this is happening but the biggest concern is being safe with co sleeping, not being on couch or intoxicated,
More babies than not co sleep all around the world. Do your own research folks
Why are doctors only worried about baby safety after they are born??
Do you really think obstetricians and prenatal care just don’t exist?
Here in the PH 🇵🇭 co-sleeping is the norm in many disadvantaged homes (a family of 6 or more can be living in a single shack or bedroom). SIDS could be happening, too, but it’s probably underreported or attributed to something else. When a baby dies, many just get sad for a bit then shrug it off, thinking that they have 8 other kids anyhoo. It sounds cynical and sad, but I’ve seen it happen in rural areas. 😒
My sons father made fun of me SO much for the sleep sack. But I was super strict about never co sleeping and always in a sleep sack. Nothing in the bed, no bumpers and on his back till he rolled over on his own. It’s not worth the risk. There’s plenty of other opportunities to bond without co sleeping.
Spike in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (and might I add Sudden Adult Death Syndrome) recently and that’s what they come up with? Co-sleeping? Let’s find out what they were injected with recently!
I only wonder how many of these babies died “accidentally.”
A co-sleeping baby next to his breastfeeding mama is the safest and most natural thing. It’s not co-sleeping that’s dangerous it’s parents doing into in an unnatural way. We are wired to have our babies close. No other mammal accidentally smothers their babies by sleeping with them. Think about it folks!
You all think I’m gonna listen to the cdc when they wanted me to wear a mask? Be on zooms 24/7 hours a day and not socialize really? Wow how stupid can people be I’m not going back and y’all can try to make me I dare you
If this can happen to a pediatric cardiologist, I will fight hard to never even fall asleep with my baby on my chest. How terrifying.
I’m all for co-sleeping.
This was my worst fear as a young mom. Both my babies would only sleep while being held in the first couple of months of life, and I actually did not like co-sleeping for this exact reason! But we needed sleep, so I did it as safely as I could possibly think to. I was RELIEVED when my babies would adjust to their own sleep space early on- it was one less thing to worry about.
Going through the same thing now. Never thought I would be share but she wakes as soon a as I lay her in bassinet plus she’s been cluster feeding. We have one fitted sheet on our bed and only pillows are on my husband’s side of bed. I’m the barrier between them and she’s in a sleep sack.
Whst if the infant doesn’t stay asleep when you put them down? My one month old cannot stay asleep. She wakes up as soon as i put her down. She sleeps in my arms or chest. I know its not safe, idk what else to do.
I always slept in the same bed as my older ones, but I’m pregnant with another baby and I plan to actually let this child sleep in the bassinet!😊
Why do they care what happens to babies..PPH sure doesn’t.
My dad works in safeguarding in the uk specialising in young people and children – the large majority of cases he deals with out of everything (suicide, abuse, drugs, missing children etc) is baby deaths due to co sleeping. We live in a small town where even the most small stuff is reported in the local news but these deaths never are simply because they are so common. Often someone accidentally rolls over in the night or throws their arm over their baby and it suffocates, or the baby ends being trapped under the duvet because someone unknowingly moved while they were asleep. All of those parents were doing the exact same stuff that all of the parents in the comments who are claiming that’s it’s fine because their babies were fine were doing, the difference is you were lucky and they sadly weren’t. Lots of people in the comments are saying that’s the only thing that would get there baby to sleep but it’s not worth a dead baby. I understand it’s easy to do by accident like falling asleep breastfeeding but please for the love of god don’t do it it’s not worth your child’s life
All of these parents know this! Before you can leave the hospital with your child they drill it into you not to sleep woth your baby. People just don’t listen anymore.
Fully boosted
How did humans survive before cribs?..
There are ways to do it safely. My mom grew up in a household with 11 children in Mexico, they didn’t have cribs, some didn’t even have beds at all and yet somehow they all survived.
The elitist attitudes of Americans are like no other. To shame others and act superior. Infant mortality rates in US are higher than many countries, yet we’re the only ones where the majority are sleeping away from our babies, in cribs. So dumb.
@L. T. Thumbs up, way up. The way they twist things! But people will believe it because they heard it on TV.
No one told me not to fall asleep with my baby, but thankfully, I had the instinct not to. I was always scared that once I fell asleep I would accidentally roll on top of her or she would fall off of me and hit the floor. It just didn’t feel right, so I just kept her in a bassinet next to the bed.
It’s better, baby can sleep 💤 in bassinet or crib is
I feel for the dad Sam, it was an accident he fell asleep with baby on chest
Plenty of places around the world bed share. It’s the best if done right .
You won’t let us have an abortion so it gets taken care of another way.
I am due this month and SO many are promoting the “safe 7 rules” for babies sleeping in the same bed. It is scary. Just because “other countries do it” doesn’t mean it’s safe. There is an attitude of disregarding research and doctors since really before the pandemic but especially during/after it. So many women with deadly complications birthing at home, even. It’s very scary.
Totally agree
Why only is this about African Americans statistics 😂😂 but they make the white family the example.
It’s weird that the US is one of the only countries that does not support co-sleeping. Places like china and parts of Africa, co sleeping is encouraged. I wonder why the disparity.
So bed sharing is unsafe, but even more unsafe is falling asleep while I’m getting up to nurse in a chair and I’m exhausted?!?!? But that’s what’s being suggested???!!! Also though, so sad for these precious babies and families ❤️ just not sure why bed sharing is always to blame when it’s more dangerous to be exhausted through the night feeding in a chair
This is why you should know yourself. For example, I know that I move alot in my sleep, so I wouldn’t have my baby in bed with me. I won’t risk it.
These PREVENTABLE deaths aren’t “tragedies” so lets begin there. People need to take ownership of their actions first if they want to make a real impact with their story.
It is a KNOWN FACT that babies should not sleep with parents as well as SIDS being a high risk for all babies.
Sadly this Pediatrician’s story is just 1 of many. No matter the many foundations in the names of babies killed in this preventable way, it’ll continue until people hold themselves accountable and perhaps the law needs to too.
As a single,working mom I tried putting my daughter in the crib next to me, but as a preemie she fed every two hours and I was a literal zombie getting up to feed her. When she slept in the bed with me I breastfed her then put her a safe distance between us when she was done. It was the only way I could get some rest at night.
In india , the baby sleeps by the mom , I slept as a baby with my parents , I am still alive 34 year old women..
Parents like this are idiots 😡😡 EVERY parent is warned to NOT sleep with their babies 😡🤦🏻♀️
There are a lot of poor families, that have always done this. In rural Kentucky this is very common.
My grandmother experienced this with her baby. It was around 1915. She and my grandfather worked on a farm. It was easier for my grandmother to nurse if the baby slept with her. Her baby was only 3 months old when she died. My grandmother never forgot her and she had to live with that knowledge. Everyone knew the story in the family and nobody let their babies sleep with them because of what happened. This wasn’t her first baby.
Cuz of vaxxes
No. Most were too young to even be vaccinated.
How can you sleep with a baby or toddler there?! No way
My baby is 10 months old and she sleeps in her own. We have a baby monitor, but she only needs to be held to go to sleep now when she’s teething real bad.
Whoever that commenter was trying to angrily shame people over an accidental tragedy is sick minded. “You shouldn’t be bragging about your child luckily surviving.” Shut up, spoken like a robot or a young teen who doesn’t have children of their own and doesn’t realize it takes EVERYTHING in you to care for them. Shaming parents who actually care about their kids is NOT the way to go about that.
Thanks Lord for your salvation
Thanks Lord for your peace
Thanks Lord single no kids
EDUCATE new parents. It all comes down to education and implementation. Have nurses visit all new moms, someone to check on their mental health and to make sure the baby is being cared for properly. Without abortion access more and more babies are going to be mistreated and uncared for also.
Why does this not happen in poorer countries? India & China have such large populations, no such reported incidents yet.
Coslept with all 6 of my babies…never had any incidents.
This couldnt possibly be anything to do with certain mandates that the medical industry has been pushing on people over the last 3 years 🧐
(notice they always use the term SIDS, which means they don’t know what caused the death but refuse to do an autopsy because who really wants to know the truth anyways)
Some babies will not sleep in a separate space. They just won’t and if parents dont get any sleep then that presents another danger. I tried to get my baby to sleep in bassinet and he would cry nonstop and wouldnt sleep for more than ten or twenty minutes at a time. I then fell asleep while holding him trying to console him and get him back to sleep! So much for safe sleeping! Doctors need to be realistic and give safe sleeping advice when co-sleeping is the only option! Having parents that are about to collapse from lack of sleep is dangerous too.
Actually, the people I know who have done co-sleeping are neither African American nor poor.
I wish there was additional support out there for parents. Some infants won’t sleep without being held, regardless of using all the tools and methods. No matter how much you try to tough it out, it’s nearly impossible to not fall asleep eventually. Maybe it’d help if the U.S. offered paid parental leave at the very least. The way our society treats postpartum women is almost cruel.
It’s sad that this is still happening, I’m unfortunately not a mother but being 40 this was something I knew not to do since I was a preteen babysitting my brother. My mother made it very clear the baby is to be alone in the crib with nothing and if he’s crying not to worry he’ll get tired and fall asleep. I am not judging anyone because I know it’s easier said than done, but find it shocking that this doesn’t seem to be widely known. This again IMO goes back to education and things that need to be taught in schools at young ages so it sinks in, also need to make sure there are at least free or affordable bassinets so parents are not given the excuse of no money.
I’ve had 8 kids. Baby swings (with rechargeable batteries) are EXCELLENT, they will let the parents have happy sleeping babies 💓
OMG he’s a Dr ywt
Isn’t co-sleeping something that these new parenting books recommend? They say it helps with bonding. I never thought it made sense.
I co slept with both my babies and definitely felt this was the safest option for our family
Geez are parents this dumb? Big bodies small babies. Jesus F Christ.
We do that in Indonesia. For centuries. Cosleeping. No baby dies.