Sunday, July 17, 2011

No, No Newbies!

DO NOT let your newborn infant sleep with you in your bed!  The voice in your head telling you not to is not a paranoid voice, it is a sensible voice, eked out from millennia of evolutionary progress.  Put your newborn in her car-seat thingy and set it on the floor next to your bed or put him in a laundry basket on HIS BACK next to your bed but DO NOT sleep with your infant in your bed.  Especially not with your and your equally sleep-deprived partner.  It seems sort of dangerous because it is sort of dangerous.  And yes, sleeping in the parental bed is a CAUSE of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  The baby can be in your room, in arm's reach, and NOT in your bed.
Here is what the Mayo Clinic has to say on the subject of SIDS.

Again, we are sleep techs and understand sleep deprivation.  Please, please put your infant to sleep somewhere other than your bed.

1 comment:

nancy said...

I did it twice and I'd do it again. Sorry, sleep tech moms. I love ya, but this was the only way I got ANY sleep.