Co-Sleeping

[spitfire06]

Allthough I am not yet even ready to conceive a new baby (okay Im off birth controll but I haven't had a period for a year now lol and I went off about six months ago so I still have about three more to go untill I should have it again.) I am researching co-sleeping. Part of me wanting to research it is due to Cafemom, and how I saw Christie Haskell's Stir post, with pictures of some add saying co-sleeping is a HORRID NEGLIGABLE thing to do to your child. The pictures basically show an infant sleeping next to a butchering knife! 

I do know that I co-slept with my DD after she was born, it was much more of a we co slept in the same room, not in the same bed every night. I was breast feeding and did what felt natural to me. I did not put my Dear daughter into harms way. I am ashamed of our western civilization and how petty we have all become. Practically banning breastfeeding in public and wanting to kick children out of resteraunts because some people who despise children don't want to see them in the resteratunt. Or the shock of NUDITY in public. Breast feeding is totally natural, actually thinking about this I do slightly understand why some cultures totally throw out the shirts period. Breasts are totally natural and a part of every woman.

 So I guess what I am trying to get at is that I am PRO Breast feeding and PRO co-sleeping.

 And the research I have found shows that if you are breast feeding co sleeping is totally safe because your body and the infants body's react to each other and stay in light sleep stages, and recognize the signs of change faster than if you are not co sleeping.

BUT the research also shows if you are co sleeping and bottle feeding that you should not sleep in the same bed that the infant should be sleeping separate from you because your body doesn't go into protection mode and the infants tendancies are to move away from mom. You can still sleep in the same room and that is totally safe just do not sleep in the same bed!

Here is the website I got some of my information from:  http://cosleeping.nd.edu/frequently-asked-questions/