Some guidance on co-sleeping
or a Moses basket in the same room as you. But of the 700,000 babies born each year in England and Wales, half will have slept in their parents’ bed – with either one or both of their parents – by the time they’re three months old.
In 2016, 219 babies died of SIDS in the UK: 0.03 of all births. It’s estimated that half were in cots or Moses baskets and half were co-sleeping. “But of those co-sleeping babies, 90% were described as sleeping in a largely preventable, hazardous situation,” says Jenny. “In other words, they weren’t co-sleeping“It’s important to remember that SIDS is rare. In the UK it’s gone down by 79 per cent since 1991, which is the year when the Back To Sleep campaign began.
A common sleeping arrangement is to have mum in the centre of the bed, with baby on one side of her at a slight angle and dad on the other. "You need to find a way of sleeping that works for your family", says Jenny, "but you may find that you instinctively adopt a protective pose, curled on your side, facing your baby, with one arm stretched out above him."
Don’t put him on top of a duvet – it’s too puffy a surface for a baby to lie on. It can also trap too much heat underneath him. "The easiest thing to do is to dress your baby in an age-and-temperature appropriate bodysuit and sleep bag and lie him on the mattress, well away from any bedding or pillows," says Jenny.
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