cosleep

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cosleep

Of a parent, to sleep in the same bed or room as one or more of their small or infant children. We're going to try cosleeping once the baby is born.

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Miss Willis, who is now pregnant again, told police she did not remember being told anything by health professionals about safe sleeping with babies, and said she had successfully co-slept with her eldest child.

Newborn baby died cradled in father's arms after parents fell asleep; Parents Amy Willis and Kevin Stanley from Devon had fallen asleep late at night with their six-day-old son, Joey, before waking at 1am to find him lifeless

Amy, for instance, argues that Japanese parents have co-slept with their kids for ages and still have one of the lowest infant mortality rates in the industrial world (the World Bank puts the figure at two deaths per 1,000 live births).

Is co-sleeping safe for your baby?

"We found that about 73 percent of families co-slept at the one-month point.

Moms co-sleeping with baby for long-term more likely to feel depressed

They "co-slept" with many people, the night characterized by "punctuated sleeping" because co-sleepers would wake up and talk, or begin to eat.

How we sleep

Camp life presupposes limited fixity, great mobility, immediacy of coming and going, and intimate practices of mutual orientation, 'co-sleeping' (as Musharbash 'co-slept' with various other women) and co-presence within camps.

Yuendumu Everyday: Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia

Critics say neither study differentiated between babies who slept in bed with their parents and those who co-slept on couches or other inappropriate surfaces.