Sharing the bed with your baby multiplies the risk for sudden infant death syndrome sids fivefold according to a 2013 study.
Babies sleep in bed with parents.
This is your happy medium this is your happy medium in fact the latest aap recommendations encourage parents to room share with baby for at least the first six months and ideally a year since having baby.
But you can practice safe co sleeping if you put baby to sleep in a separate bassinet next to your bed as opposed to in your bed.
They say that they sleep longer and better when they sleep with their babies.
The american academy of pediatrics aap says parents should never let their baby sleep in the bed with them citing the risk of suffocation sudden infant.
Co sleeping is a controversial issue.
The studies of sroufe professor emeritus of the university of wisconsin studying development in children for more than 30 years have finally shown that a secure attachment is not obtained by sleeping with the parents prolonged breastfeeding or carrying the child but by being able to respond to the signs that the baby emits in a sensitive.
Sleeping in the same room but not in the same bed may reduce babies risk of sids by up to 50 percent said dr.
Lori feldman winter a co author of the aap guidelines and pediatrics researcher.