Portable baby bed

 Safe co-sleeping is better for baby's development than sleep training

When our children were born more than 20 years ago, my husband and I engaged in a sleep debate that many American parents still have today: where should we put our babies to sleep at night?

A blog post in the New York Times has reignited the debate for a new generation of new parents. "Eight weeks of sleep training: do you have the guts?" It asks. Sleep training is the process of putting an infant to sleep throughout the night through a variety of behavioural techniques, in extreme cases allowing the infant to 'cry it out' in the room without responsive parental reassurance or feeding. After a few days, logically, the infant "gets used to it" and "learns" to sleep alone all night.
This school of sleep training, based on operant conditioning, runs counter to the current science of infant development. Here are some examples.

Infant crying is not a misbehaviour that needs to be changed. It is a physiological sign that something is wrong. Babies who are picked up when they cry know that their needs will be met and they cry less in the long run. On the other hand, if an infant's cries are consistently ignored, she will know that her signalling system is ineffective, thereby undermining the development of self-efficacy. Her natural needs may then escalate into more anxious ones. The general rule of parenting is that you can't spoil a baby.

Although many Americans want their children to learn independence as early as possible, forcing an infant to manage on his or her own is not the way to develop independence. Instead, independence naturally emerges from a secure relationship that is established after her needs have been adequately met many times. A systematic evaluation of sleep training programmes for infants under six months of age, published in the Journal of Developmental and Behavioural Pediatrics, concluded that these strategies "have not been shown to reduce infant crying, prevent sleep and behavioural problems in later childhood, or prevent postnatal depression." In fact, sleep training in the first weeks and months of life "may lead to unintended consequences, including increased crying, premature cessation of breastfeeding, increased maternal anxiety, and an increased risk of SIDS if the infant needs to sleep day or night in a room separate from the caregiver."

While many people do not support co-sleeping, we can build on what we already have. When a baby cries, no parent chooses to ignore it. My husband and I eventually chose to sleep in the same room as our baby. We have a suitable baby lounger for him with a very comfortable cot. He sleeps in the cot. This baby recliner can be used for babies from 0-24 months. It can be resized to suit your growing baby, which is great as you know that a baby is very dependent on items that are used for a long time and if the bedding is changed frequently this can feel strange to him. And with up to 24 months of use, this is the most secure and comfortable bedding for your baby. In addition this baby nest can be used as a night sleeper. At other times it can also be used portably. Even when my husband and I go to my child's grandmother's house or grandma's house, this portable baby nest sleeper allows him to sleep peacefully in unfamiliar surroundings.

We have made a few adjustments to the cosleeping baby bed, which fits in with my husband's and my lifestyle and is a way to take better care of the child while avoiding the disadvantages of co-sleeping.

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