bed-sharing

Sleeping with your young child, also called bed-sharing or co-sleeping, is prevalent in many countries and cultures, but remains relatively uncommon in the United States.

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Hale said the findings suggest that bed-sharing is not necessarily a bad idea for toddlers.

Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development 2011

Also commenting on the study, Michelle M. Garrison, a research scientist with the Seattle Children's Research Institute, focused on the notion that what matters "is not so much bed-sharing itself, but rather how exactly parents go about it."

Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development 2011

It's still important to emphasize the increased risk for SIDS before 1 year of age in terms of bed-sharing, she noted.

Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development 2011

• The baby should sleep in the same room as the parents, but not in the same bed room-sharing without bed-sharing.

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Regardless, Sand-Loud stressed that parents should not interpret the findings as encouragement to begin bed-sharing while children are still infants.

Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development 2011

So bed-sharing is not necessarily something to be advised against, Garrison said.

Study: Sharing bed with toddler won't harm development 2011

Some terriers and dogs with wiry coats might safely go for months without a bath caution: this laissez-faire approach might preclude bed-sharing.

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There was no bed-sharing in Strasbourg or Brussels.

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Too many damp weekends, fishfinger dinners and enforced bed-sharing linger in the British memory; there are too many associations with poverty; murderers tend to live in them in films.

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