Is It Okay for Parents to Co-Sleep with Their Children?

Director of the Pediatric Sleep Center at Weill Cornell, Dr. Haviva Veler weighs in on whether or not parents should co-sleep with their children.

[thatguy]

I sleep with my parent for like 11 years and then i try to sleep with myself in my own room
Was it scary?
Heck yeah
Did i get use to it?
After 1 month yes
Conclussion
Sleep with your baby dang it cause they need you

[saulcontrerasOfficial]

Don't deprive your childen of this suddenly. I periodically, but rarely co-slept as an older child and one night I had a ton of anxiety(I have OCD) and my mom wouldn't let me in because I was like 11. I remember throwing a tantrum because I was genuinely terrified and my parents thought I was being a brat. Just saying.

[sandip]

Completely wrong and utter bullshit. Children are not independent in their bed until the age of 5. With the bed being wet with piss and diaper with poops. They don't get rest arrhythmia caused due to wet place to sleep. Kids need parents to help them out and calm during these times and others.

[miriamdavis]

As a baby, my kid slept in her crib sometimes with me. As a toddler, out of necessity, she would sleep with me because we only had on bed, in a small studio apartment. Now, she is 6 and still likes to sleep with me but I explain to her she has to sleep in her own bed. She does get scared but adjusts well.

[rosekennedy]

Some of my Asian family members let some of their kids co-sleep with them until they’re kids (the most recent co-sleeping kid being 8 years old), while most of my American family members with kids didn’t use much co-sleeping (if any), beyond a span of months after baby was born.

What I’ve noticed is that the kids in my family that co-slept until they were kids ended up having a fear of sleeping alone or moving into their own bedroom by the time they were in 1st or 2nd grade.
And of course, the kids in my family that were moved into their own room as babies never developed a fear of sleeping alone or in separate rooms, and naturally they never needed an adjustment period for something that was normalized to them since before they could recognize it.

I did have a couple of American friends that started co-sleeping with their youngest child and only tried to transition their child to her own room at the age of 3 or 4, but by that time, she was too scared to sleep alone.

[SuperBrubba]

People who are struggling with the question of co sleeping with their baby or not, watch the documentary The Milky Way. They cover the benefits of co sleeping and how it's only dangerous when the baby is formula fed and the parents don't do any research on how to co sleep with their baby.

[ScubaSteve-choj]

My question is: Does this Dr. have children?

[jonsie]

What about steep in their baby crib in the same room. so they can get used to sleeping in their bed.

[amours_jo-zee]

It’s so hard 😩 i want to co sleep with my baby because I’m just so obsessed with him and i enjoy how peaceful he sleeps under me but i know it’s not what’s best for him so it’s so hard making that sacrifice and putting him in his crib. 😩🤣

[kierascrafts]

I heard this woman talking on the radio last week and she was talking about co sleeping with her son. She tried moving him into his own room when he was a toddler and he kept moving into her room. He’s 14 now and it’s more than just sleeping in a different room. The woman on the radio said she can’t even get enough time to take a shower because he son won’t stay in another room without her for that long. She thinks he has something like separation anxiety

[refreshe]

When you look at the sleeping patterns of any ape, they all are huddled up together next to eachother, regardless of how old they are (kids sleep with parents even when the kids are adults, etc). This idea that children are meant to sleep all alone by themselves is sadistic nonsense.

[naylahasan]

tbh i think i was co-slept with but i hate sleeping with people in the same bed and only do it for reasons

[Nirharsha]

I'm 18 and still sleeping with my parents...

[louisleary]

Me personal I think kids should transition as early as 2 or 3. Co sleeping can lead to other things like codependency or enmeshment if the parent is encouraging the behavior. Which can also lead to emotional incest.