Keeping It Safe
Some recommendations for parents to follow when co-sleeping:
- Infants should sleep on their backs on firm, clean surfaces, in the absence of smoke, under light, comfortable blanketing, and their heads should never be covered.
- The bed should not have any stuffed animals or pillows around the infant and an infant should never be placed to sleep on top of a pillow.
- Infants should never sleep on couches or sofas, with or without adults, because they can slip down into the crevice or get wedged against the back of a couch. They also should not sleep on beanbags or waterbeds.
- Avoid crevices between mattress and wall or mattress and side rail. Avoid side rails, headboards and footboards that have slats that could entrap your baby's head.
- Infants 1 year old or younger should not sleep with other children.
- Parents on sedatives, medications, drugs or who have consumed alcohol or those who are excessively unable to arouse because of sleep disorders should not co-sleep on the same surface with the infant. This is also true if your partner has or takes no responsibility for the baby.
- Mothers with excessively long hair should tie it up to prevent infant entanglement around the infant's neck.
- Extremely obese persons, who may not feel where exactly or how close their infant is, may wish to have the infant sleep alongside but on a different surface.
- Avoid putting your bed near curtains or blinds that have dangling strings that could strangle your baby.
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