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Home  ▸  Blog Posts  ▸  Trust Yourself, Trust Your Child, When It Comes to Cosleepin ...

Trust Yourself, Trust Your Child, When It Comes to Cosleeping

A nice article from Attachment Parenting International:  Trust Yourself, Trust Your Child, When It Comes to Cosleeping

I remember thinking the same thing many of you are thinking, “When will this baby (or child) sleep through the night? Am I doing something wrong by cosleeping?” Just like you, I was criticized by anyone who knew I coslept – family, friends, doctors. I even had one doctor tell me that every child he knows who bedshared grew up to become a psychopath. And he was serious…

In the same vein…  trust yourself and your child when it comes to other sleep issues, also!
From KellyMom: Sleeping Through the Night

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It’s so common for mothers to worry when their babies don’t sleep through the night. After all, everyone knows they’re “supposed to.” Some doctors recommend nighttime weaning and “cry it out” methods if your baby is not sleeping through the night by 6 months or even earlier. Even when the mom herself has no problems with baby nursing at night, she still worries that this is a problem, since American society seem to consider it one. There are books all over the bookstores with advice on solving so-called “sleep problems…”

Updated on January 1, 2018Filed Under: Blog Posts Tagged With: sleep-cosleeping

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