Essay On Co-Sleeping

Within today’s ever growing “health cautious” world, there are many different areas of focus to one’s health and well-being. One rather controversial areas of concern being co-sleeping with infants. There’s many perspectives of co-sleeping with an infant, ranging from professional healthcare providers and sleep-deprived parents wishing to catch some extra “z’s” during the night. Many healthcare professionals are urging parents to immediately stop co-sleeping, or to not even begin the co-sleeping process once the infant arrives home from the hospital. The many debatable points that are brought about when discussing co-sleeping with an infant are parents needing the rest to function while taking care of an infant, infants becoming smothered by blankets or their parents in the sharing bed and infants being dropped and/or rolling out of the bed while co-sleeping. Days, maybe months for some, life adjusts around a new baby’s schedule. Eat, sleep, changing a messy diaper, repeat. Once a working mother has to return back to work, the schedule at home may need some adjustments as well. Parents who work during the day, then come home to the work of taking care of an infant, rightfully are exhausted by the end of the day. Co-sleeping easily
Regardless of what ones opinion is when it comes to the topic of parents co-sleeping with their infant, many healthcare professionals do provide parents with bundles of information on how to practice safe-sleeping just to keep their little bundles as safe as they can