Room sharing?
I am a general proponent of informed choice for parenting. Like go ahead and cosleep if you’re following the safe sleep 7 and it works for you, etc. I hate when people/doctors try to put blanket statements on everything, like cosleeping is dangerous!!! without actually making exceptions for families who are doing it the right way. That brings me to the room sharing rule. Pediatricians constantly recommend room sharing up to 6 months. Now is this an actual helpful rule OR is this just to prevent people from doing things badly, just like the statement “cosleeping is dangerous!!” ? They all say it helps to prevent SIDS but I don’t actually understand why. What is the difference between a baby sleeping in a bedside bassinet, and a baby sleeping in another room in a bassinet, using safe sleep rules, with a monitor, and responsive parents who soothe or feed them when they rouse? I can understand how leaving a baby to sleep in another room without a monitor or letting them cry it out, etc could be bad, but why is the statement not “room sharing can be helpful but if baby is asleep in another room, make sure A B C happens…