Wireless Monitor For When Baby Falls Asleep In Car?

janninew

I didn't care about the 'why's' when it comes to research about cot death, it isn't a huge sacrifice having your baby sleep in your room for the first months of their life, plus makes feeding much easier and saves having to get out a nice warm bed!

Person_one

mountainofdebt wrote: »

In a way yes it does.

I bet alot of people don't do things that we're told to by the medical profession simply because a) the medical profession keeps changing their minds or can't agree on what's best and b) if people understood why they were being told a course of action is recommended then there's more chance of it being followed and becoming accepted practice.

But there again I might just be an awkward so and so who wants to know the science behind the advice rather than just accepting it as gospel

I agree that the 'how' should be easily available and that understanding why the advice is there and how it was arrived at is best in an ideal world.

In a situation like this though, where nobody fully knows the 'why' or the 'how' some people will use that as a reason not to follow the advice even though its still based on a solid amount of evidence, and that's a real shame.

Gillyx

Being in the same room as a parent and being close has been found to regulate there breathing which helps prevent cot death. We room shared for 15 months, I missed him terribly when he went into his own room

Kynthia

Gillyx wrote: »

Being in the same room as a parent and being close has been found to regulate there breathing which helps prevent cot death. We room shared for 15 months, I missed him terribly when he went into his own room

How does that work with daytime naps? The parent is unlikely to be asleep and next to the crib for the whole nap.

greeneggs_2

My understanding is that babies shouldn't be allowed to go into a really deep sleep and so being nearby to other people helps to prevent this.

The problem with research into cot death is that you can't experiment on a controlled way on babies so all of the information is observational.

With the car thing, if we didn't want to move him, someone always just sat in the car with a sleeping child. My husband would often doze off too!

Gillyx

Kynthia wrote: »

How does that work with daytime naps? The parent is unlikely to be asleep and next to the crib for the whole nap.

In the same room for daytime naps is the current guidelines afaik

Toto

The cot death thing, I've read that we have about a 40 - 60 minute sleep cycle where we go from a deep sleep to a lighter sleep back to deep and so on. The thinking is that when we go through these sleep cycles we make various noises, turn over etc, this apparently stops the baby from going into a very deep sleep which they can't get themselves out of. At the same time they learn to mimic the same sleep cycle which they get pretty good at by the time they are about 6 months.


Aside from that, I think sleeping in the same room as the parents helps with loads of other things, not least attachment, the baby's feelings of security and of course breastfeeding.


My last child only moved out of my room recently and she is 5 she has a bed in her own room but chose to sleep in her toddler bed next to mine. I miss our little chats first thing in the morning before we get up.

Morglin

My babies, 40 years ago, went into their own room straight away (with a monitor) and both slept through the night from 6 weeks old - so it worked out just fine all round.:T

We all bonded, we all thrived, and we all get along wonderfully well, so it obviously didn't trash the child/parent relationship too much...:whistle: lol

I always got up, in the night, to feed them, because there were a couple of news accounts, at that time, of mothers feeding in bed, falling asleep and suffocating their babies, so better safe than sorry.

The medical profession constantly changes advice, as over the years there has been much advice to let babies sleep in the same bed as adults - there are now suggestions that this CAN be a contributory factor with cot deaths. :wall:

Over the years, I have heard medical advice advising parents to lay babies on their fronts, backs and sides - all contradicting each other!

Best that parents rely on their own instincts, ignore all the conflicting advice everywhere, and just do what feels right for you and baby.

I would also think that, for the sake of a happy relationship, mum and dad need private time together, to be lovers, as well as parents, and I wonder how that works when there is a toddler/young child in the same room? :think:

Lin

Gillyx

Can you only be intimate in the bedroom? Best let my OH know we've been doing it wrong :rotfl:

moomoomama27

Morglin wrote: »

My babies, 40 years ago, went into their own room straight away (with a monitor) and both slept through the night from 6 weeks old - so it worked out just fine all round.:T

We all bonded, we all thrived, and we all get along wonderfully well, so it obviously didn't trash the child/parent relationship too much...:whistle: lol

I always got up, in the night, to feed them, because there were a couple of news accounts, at that time, of mothers feeding in bed, falling asleep and suffocating their babies, so better safe than sorry.

The medical profession constantly changes advice, as over the years there has been much advice to let babies sleep in the same bed as adults - there are now suggestions that this CAN be a contributory factor with cot deaths. :wall:

Over the years, I have heard medical advice advising parents to lay babies on their fronts, backs and sides - all contradicting each other!

Best that parents rely on their own instincts, ignore all the conflicting advice everywhere, and just do what feels right for you and baby.

I would also think that, for the sake of a happy relationship, mum and dad need private time together, to be lovers, as well as parents, and I wonder how that works when there is a toddler/young child in the same room? :think:

Lin

The best advice to follow is professional advice based on the newest research, not anecdotes across the generations!

There's nothing wrong with a baby/young child sharing a bedroom with their parents, one of my children shared with us for a very long time, and private time can be achieved by being inventive! I could never put my need for space above the safety of my child.