A bedside crib, also called a bedside cosleeper, is a toddler bed that attaches to the side of an adult bed.
Often called a co-sleeper, it allows your infant to keep close to you during the night without actually being in your bed. Baby has the advantages of sleeping close to you, without potential risk of you rolling over on her or him.
Like standard baby cribs with one of the side bed rails taken off, the open side is positioned beside the adult bed, with the bedside mattress and adult bed mattress at the same level.
Bedside cribs is safer for the child, and will help the parents get better sleep.
Having the toddler sleep in the same bed as the parents is Not recommended. Actually, it could be dangerous for your infant, babies have actually died from accidents due to sleeping in the same bed as the parents. Particularly if you are someone that rolls around or thrashes about while asleep. Your child could inadvertently be danger.
In a May 1999 study published in Pediatrics, a journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, researchers found that "In 1995, suffocation was the leading cause of injury death for infants younger than age 1." And ".the greatest increase in infant suffocation deaths since 1980 has been in those "overlain" (parent on top of child) while bed-sharing." The researchers "stress that bed-sharing and the use of adult beds for infants should be discouraged."
A more recent study, published in the same journal on March 2000, also reached similar conclusions. "A crib that conforms to the safety standards of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the ASTM (formerly the American Society for Testing and Materials) is a desirable sleeping environment for infants. Bed sharing or co-sleeping may be hazardous under certain conditions."
Ahmed Noer
