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Home › Articles › Issues for Mom › Breastfeeding in Bed

Breastfeeding in Bed

What You Need to Know
About Co-sleeping

By Shel Franco

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But once again, I felt like science was on our side. McKenna says that anthropological and developmental studies suggest that moms and babies are designed to respond to each other's physical presence. He also says that no data has ever shown that mothers who breastfeed and co-sleep in a "safe environment" are unable to sense the proximity of their babies in order to avoid smothering them.

"Our own laboratory sleep studies of co-sleeping/bed-sharing mother-infant pairs (2- to 4-month-olds) reveal that both breastfeeding mothers and their infants are extremely sensitive throughout their night across all sleep stages to the movements and physical condition of the other," he says.

I knew this to be true. On many occasions, Angelo and I were in such sync that I would wake split seconds before he started rooting.

As for my son's mental health, I was reassured to find that at least five studies conducted over the last 10 years showed that co-sleeping children had extremely positive adult characteristics that's more than can be said fr the alternative. "While advocates of solitary infant sleeping arrangements have claimed any number of benefits of infants sleeping alone, the truth of the matter is none of these supposed benefits have been shown to be true through scientific studies," McKenna says.

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