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Bed-sharing is a popular way to help bond with your baby. There are many opinions both for and against it. Probably the most important issue is whether it is safe or not. A national survey done in 2003 found that the percentage of parents and infants sleeping in the same bed at night doubled between 1993 and 2000. However, from an analysis of death certificates nationwide the rate of fatalities attributed to unintentional suffocation and strangulation in the first year of life quadrupled between 1984 and 2004. It’s hard not to see the correlation. Babies should have a separate sleep surface with a firm mattress and be placed on their backs with no blankets, pillows, staffed animals or other objects that could suffocate them . Well, fortunately there are many other ways you can use to help foster the parent-infant and parent-child bond. 1) Hold. Wear your child in a fabric baby carrier. 2) Read. 3) Play. 4) Sing. 5) Learn and perform infant massage. These are just as important and as powerful as sharing a bed.
February 12th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
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February 12th, 2009 at 11:25 pm
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