Maternal bed sharing practices has been a long time, I guess, practice.\u202f Some parents will say that this is something that, you know, their parents did with them and they feel very comfortable doing it.\u202f Certainly it\u2019s easier for mothers who are breastfeeding to bring their infant in to bed with them.\u202f So it\u2019s commonly done around the world.\u202f But we know now that there are risks involved with bed sharing.\u202f In some parts of the world a mother and an infant might share a bed on a hard surface on the ground or in a place where there isn\u2019t the same sort of risks that we often have in other countries \u2013 North America for sure, Canada and the US.\u202f We often have very soft mattresses, a lot of bed clothing and, you know, it\u2019s a very warm, close environment.\u202f And unfortunately we\u2019ve had, you know, many instances where parents, mother or father, but usually the mother because they are the closest to the infant usually in bed, can rollover on an infant or the infant gets wedged between the side of the bed and the wall. And all of these deaths are so tragic and 100% preventable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And so, there are certain factors in particular that make bed sharing risky for example when there are a lot of covers, when a bed mattress is particularly soft, when a parent is under the influence of drugs or alcohol, when a parent is unusually tired.\u202f <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Healthcare providers and experts are looking at promoting \u2013 we call it \u2018co-sleeping\u2019 rather than \u2018bed sharing\u2019.\u202f So that for the first six months what we like to do is encourage moms to breastfeed, absolutely, up to a year, two years, breastfeeding is so very, very important.\u202f But at night that the infant after breastfeeding be placed on their own sleep surface and we say a government approved crib.\u202f Their own separate sleep surface on their back and without a lot of covers that could possibly cover their mouths. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Maternal bed sharing practices has been a long time, I guess, practice.\u202f Some parents will say that this is something that, you know, their parents did with them and they feel very comfortable doing it.\u202f Certainly it\u2019s easier for mothers who are breastfeeding to bring their infant in to bed with them.\u202f So it\u2019s commonly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-text-only.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1605","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1605\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.scienceofecd.com\/transcript\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}