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Is sleeping with your baby a good idea? Here's what the science says
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this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
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If anyone reading this is co-sleeping, don't lie to your pediatrician when, during every visit, they ask you about sleeping arrangements. Tell them the truth.
If you don't tell the truth, ask yourself what kind of parent lies to their baby's doctor.
(Y'all're using doctors, right? And not barn spirits or your Aunt Cookie's facebook blog?)
The kind of parent that doesn't vaccinate, has a med cabinet of essential oils, and eats horse paste fits the criteria of your question. Probably also homeschools, has a photography "business" side gig, and deals heavily in Amway and bitcoin.
But that's just a wild guess.
I'm a nanny. I provide childcare in the child's home. I'm hired by the parents. And those essential oil, antivax, homeschooling parents? They PROUDLY tell the world that they bedshare. In fact, during interviews they quiz me to find it out if I'll cuddle their child for the child's naps because that's the only way kid knows how to sleep.
I'm pretty sure the ones who lie to their pediatricians are those who are much more mainstream, based on how many times I've gone searching for a child's sleep sack only to find it in the parent bed, the parent bed unmade, and a clear impression of a sleeping child still in the pillowtop. But they won't even admit it to me, who doesn't care and just wants to know where the sleep sack is.