What Is Co Sleeping and How Do I Know if It’s Right for Us?
What is co sleeping? Co-sleeping is often used as a catch-all term to describe the experience of sleeping with your baby close by. Co-sleeping may look a little different for every family. Parents may lay their child in a safe bedside sleeper that attaches to the side of their own bed, or they might share a bedroom with their child but encourage baby to sleep in a separate crib. They might even sleep with their baby nestled up against them all through the night. Though there are many ways to co sleep, some are far safer than others. ( Bedside sleepers , we’re looking at you and giving you a gold star!) But all forms of co-sleeping have one thing in common: they’ve been the safe sleeping practice preferred by families throughout history. Though parents in many modern Western countries have popularized separate bedrooms and detached cribs, for thousands of years going to sleep curled up near your newborn has been the norm. In fact, parents from many different cultures have long under...