With or against making sleep baby in the room of the parents?
You hardly returned here of maternity with this very new baby that from the start the question of the nights arises. Where to make sleep this newcomer, who has sometimes evil to find the sleep and awakes several times per night?
Practical side and in particular if the mom nurses, that is not any doubt: the mother thus avoids rising to go to seek the newborn and to put it at the centre. She can completely nurse lengthened, by having baby in the bed at her sides. Thereafter, it does not have any more that to rest it in its small bed installed close to it.
To prevent sudden death :
Side safety, the presence of the child in the room of the parents contributes to reduce the risks of sudden death of the nourrisson*. " One could measure that its respiratory pauses are shorter when the baby sleeps in the room of the parents, because there remains stimulated in backdrop by the noises of the adults with proximité" , the pediatrist Edwige Antier comments on for its part. Always according to this study, it is on the other hand strongly disadvised sleeping with the baby on a settee and always preferable to give the child in his own bed after having nourished it.The mattress of the parental bed is often too soft for a baby, when with the feather bed or the covers, they can be the cause of smothering. To always think of laying down the child on the back, in a too not heated room and far from any nicotinism.
" To make sleep baby in the parental room in my opinion is completely recommended during the first six months of the child, continues Edwige Antier. We are in a world where one wants too quickly to separate the newborn from his parents, by fear to give him bad habits. It is wanted that the child grows dark his as fast as possible. However, during the first hundred days of life, the baby does not make distinction between the day and the night and its beaches of sleep remain very short. It is only around six months that the beaches of long sleep appear. The infant needs to hear his parents breathe and move close to him, as when it was in the maternal belly. That the sécurise"
When baby gains his walls :
Marie-Joseph Challamel, person in charge of the Research unit on the sleep of the child (INSERM, Southern Lyon Hospital) division this opinion, while moderating it: " It is important that a very small baby sleeps close to his parents, because of the risks of so frequent false-roads and regurgitation at this age. But that is not obligatory for as much, underlines it. Our culture always does not support this proximity and if the parents wish to found a separation, their desire must be respected. In addition, when the children fall asleep close to the parents or are deadened by them, they are likely to be accustomed to this presence. In the very first months, that does not pose a problem. But as of 5 months, of conditionings can apparaître."
Spent four months and half, the baby could thus be installed in his own room. It will learn how there to manage only its sleep, knowing that it has from now on all the capacities necessary to do it. Thereafter, if however it calls in middle of the night, the parents can go to see their baby, to express their presence to reassure it, by posing the hand on him or while speaking to him gently. Then to invite it to fall asleep again quietly. But it is necessary to avoid taking it, to rock it or to nourish it because the bad habits are caught at this time.
A last council of Edwige Antier: not to hesitate to install baby in the room of the elder ones, if it has brothers and sisters. Far from obstructing itself between them, the presence of the ones and others reassure them mutually, which guaranties a sleep of better quality.
