The time-honored tradition of parents sleeping with their babies is coming under fire and being threatened by the controllers of society. It used to be a normal practice, but not anymore thanks to doctors and other experts who frown upon this behavior. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) is alleging it is connected to SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and even linking it to perversion and sexual abuse.
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Rather than allow parents to be connected to their children during sleep, we have to be separated and put kids in cribs for all sleeping times. There are no longer any valid health or emotional benefits, only problems that outweigh such claims, at least that's how it's being portrayed.
Child Protective Services (CPS) is also stepping in to steal babies from their loving parents for this apparent "crime". So yes, co-sleeping is now a grave risk to the child's health, since CPS can come and kidnap them. That's a "good" way to put an end to co-sleeping, through fear of child abduction. What a great system!
True, some parents may be negligent, and be drunk or drug users that can be a danger to sleeping little babies, but that doesn't mean all parents are the same. Yet so-called "studies" that come out lump all parents together as unfit to sleep beside their child. The problems of a few parents are being cast over all parents to deny them co-sleeping and justifying the kidnapping of babies.
What do the statistics have to say about the risk?
Image by Cristina Spanò for NPR. Sources for statistics: BMJ Study On Bed-Sharing (SIDS); NOAA (lightning); CDC (drowning and car accident); NIH (peanut allergy)
You better be careful posting anything online where you are sleeping next to your baby. These innocent and sweet photos of mommy or daddy sleeping beside a baby are now grounds for being reported to CPS for neglectful or abusive behavior. The control-freaks are on the prowl to make sure you abide by their rules.
And be careful sharing these details with your child's doctor. Some pediatricians have reported parents for daring to put their child in such "grave danger". For these doctors, the risk outweigh any benefits or rights the parents have to be with their child.
Studies from the 2000s indicated a higher risk of baby injury from a bed not designed for them (as the beds are often too soft and fluffy for the baby), and by 2011 pediatricians were giving strong advice not to share a bed with the baby, but now the message is turning into:
Not only shouldn't you sleep with your baby, but it's almost against the law, and parents should be arrested.
Look at this crazy ad from the Safe Sleep Campaign in the city of Milwaukee:
A meat clever by the baby. Because sleeping with your baby is like chopping them with a knife, right? What the hell...
Another ad had a tombstone on the parental bed, etched with the phrase: "For too many babies last year, this was their final resting place."
Studies put alcoholics, drug users and smokers int eh same category as low-risk parents to conclude the same level of danger applies to all parents. Studies that looked at the absence of the high-risk factors some parents pose to their children concluded a much lower risk, despite some accidents still occurring.
"For babies older than 3 months of age, there was no detectable increased risk of SIDS among families that practiced bed-sharing, in the absence of other hazards."
If the baby is younger than 3 months, there may be an increased risk because of how fragile they are, but it's still nowhere near the other high-risk factors. Of note is that none of these studies look at how vaccines or other causes correlated as a factor in SIDS.
Many children want to be close to their parents for comfort and security. Forcing them to sleep in a crib can cause separation anxiety and trauma as they cry to be in their parents care, why isn't that seen as "abuse" by these experts? Babies are secure and bonding with parents, and have an easier access to be breast fed (which is another often taboo subject in our confused society).
The UK has shifted from a scare tactic to forbid bed-sharing to instead focus on safer ways to do it. If you have a bed that isn't suited for a young babies comfort and security, then maybe you need to change your bed to make sure they are as safe as can be. Take the steps necessary if that's the case.
The AAP hasn't budged though. Doctors or social workers who are told of bed-sharing can result in a child being taken into the foster "care" system which makes them 6 times more likely to be abused, raped, molested or killed.
How exactly he CPS thinks they are helping babies by stealing them from their parents is a wonder. They must be so bent on controlling people that they don't care about the actual safety and wellbeing of the babies.
References:
- Is Sleeping With Your Baby As Dangerous As Doctors Say?)
- Is Mom Co-sleeping with Baby Child Abuse? A Safe Time-Honored Tradition Now Used to Kidnap Babies
- SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Infant Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment
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That's it. I've had it. Time to posse up the entire nation and arrest these psycho-babbling morons.
Thank you for posting this.
A few thoughts about parents sleeping with infants/babies in the same bed. Here in Asia (I am in China) it is actually quite the norm, culturally (especially in Japan, Korea, and China). There is no such nonsense about parents being deemed "cruel" or "unfit" here about such a thing. This is a Western construct devised by TPTB as yet another arm to destroy the family unit. Unfortunately, doctors are in on the game. And don't get me started with vaccines.
It is absolutely ridiculous the levels things have gone to in the US in particular (but my home country of Canada is not far behind and Australia seems just as bad. In the US, the CDC is nothing more than a branch of organized crime put in place as a source/funnel of children and infants for child trafficking. I would not want to live in the US, as your child could be taken from you in an instant for very bogus reasons. Some states seem more crazy than others (like California).
Glad to see that there is a support community on Steemit for parents to share info and tips as to better protect themselves.
Thanks for sharing.
Yes, it's certainly about replacing the family autonomy and creating dependence on the state and favoring the state for one's survival. The control of authoritarians is scary :/
That's the thing with experts sometimes. None of this is absolute science. First, showing something statistically isn't going to establish a causal relationship. Second, as you have shown, even statistically speaking it sounds like an absurd idea. and to think it would come to this - parents sleeping with their child is now criminal - how truly and utterly absurd. But this is what experts do sometimes, the crazier the idea sounds, the more applause it gets.
And i am shocked to see how meaningless the studies done by these experts are. So many variables have been left out that are absolutely relevant to find out the reason for SIDS. And to rely on such an incomplete assessment to make something so pure & important a criminal thing. Thanks for sharing this, tells us where the world is headed. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. While these experts may be knowledgeable, their conclusions this time are truly dangerous for how we evolve as a society. I am very shocked to read this.
The "experts" like to be in control. If you don't do what they say, they power trip.
This is very frustrating, we know many people who co-slept with their kids and there’s nothing wrong with it. There are risks yes, but there are many benefits to it as well and the benefits out weigh the risks in the proper circumstances.
This is another of the litany of examples of science that’s going political. Science is supposed to produce facts, not form opinions. This is another absurd opinion from the corrupt American medical system. All too often they cherry pick numbers to fit an agenda that they want to push forward; traffic accidents due to cannabis use ignoring many factors and then putting a statistic and percentage on it; this farce of a ‘study’, anything regarding vaccines it’s all modified data, they don’t compare numbers that doesn’t fit their agenda. They don’t even bother to stay unbiased any longer.
Much in life has risks, and knowledge of how to do it right vs. doing it wrong matters. Good point on the politicization of medical research.
How about the studies linking SIDS with vaccines? Just wondering...
They could try sell the risk of suffocation, I guess... but sexual abuse?? How sick are the people who come up with such a thing?? How about when an older kid begs to come to your bed - both of my children (girl/boy) went through such a phase (and grew out of it) - I guess I should be in jail by now...
By the way, some time ago I read an article of some feminist according to whom parents should explain and demand permission from their babies in order to change their nappies, seemingly to teach them about consent... like there's anything sexual about wiping their little asses...
I saw this too - it was some dumb bitch from Australia. Absolutely ridiculous. A large segment of Australians (along with many Canadians, Brits, and Americans) are some of the most dumbed down, gullible, PC/Liberal brain-diseased, gender-confused individuals to walk the earth. No backbone whatsoever. Not sure if there is any hope for them. Thanks for posting. Following you now.
... wow... that's stupid. As if he baby can give consent... it's for their own good anyways. Nothing sexual there... idiots!
The hospital called CPS on me because I chose to breast feed, there was a nurse in my room that was always trying to take my daughter away from me and put her in the bed side bassinet.. like.. excuse me, but I didn't give birth to my daughter just to not be allowed to hold her or feed her..
Unbelievable! Don't know how you guys can live and stand for that.
This was in St. Cloud, MN Mercy Hospital. There is something seriously wrong with the system here in Minnesota.. So serious in fact that a handful of our county CPS agencies are now under investigation after Trump came into office.. I was one of the mothers who wrote to President Trump about CPS and their frivolous spending and half assed fraudulent claims against my family.
Unreal psycho society and retarded people...
Minnesota is a pretty crappy place for raising kids, only because of the cps and elderly people not minding their business.
Based on my own view and level of understanding on this, I see no paramount reason why parents should be separated from their kids....most if not all parents love sleeping with their kids, and placing a law against this is just like taking away the love from this kids. But if we are to view this issue from the angle of it being able to cause sudden infant death, then these agencies are slightly right. Either ways this whole thing shouldn't be an issue atall...
Education sure, but not authoritarian kidnapping... :/
That's another proof that we live in hugely over regulated society. One thing is advice to parents be very careful when you put fragile child near yourself in bed specially if you know that you like to turn in a sleep, but taking the child from parents is crazy police state thing. You can't enforce rules on any habit you don't like, you can promote your view, you can explain to people, why you think such thing is bad.
Yeah, be careful, but to take kids away is crazy control freak symptom...
Sometimes to become an expert in human things, people dehumanize themselves.
Maybe, in some specific cases is better to keep the baby away, but, in my personal experience, it was the same doctor who told me to take my baby with me in my bed.
I have to say, It scared me, I was afraid of cause some damage to the baby, but the doc said : the maternal instinct is very strong, with the baby with you you'll rest better ( I slept only 4 interrupted hours per night back then).
In fact, it was the perfect solution, I really rest better and even breast feeding at night was easier.
So, sometimes, is better to hear the grandmas advice than any "expert".
Good that your doctor was on the side of sanity ;)
Yes, thanks to her I learned so many things about babies and health. Very good doctor indeed.
What I did: When mine were infants, we had a the crib bed butt up next to ours between our bed and the wall. We dropped the one wall to the crib so that the baby's mattress was butted up next to ours. Mom and dad got all the room they needed and baby was sleeping "separately" in their own bed. Mom just had to roll over to breast feed in the night. Nobody was worried about rolling over on the baby. Alleged problem solved.
This was back in 2002. I was worried about these types of accusations back then. I'm glad I was. It's outrageous the amount of power these agencies believe they can purport on parents.
Yes, that's a good option as well.You were worried back 16 years ago, damn... things just progressed :/
Looking back then, back then, I didn't know why I was worried, I just had "a feeling." Looking back with what I know now, my intuition has saved me more times than I can count.
In my view it has been proven that SIDS is prevented by co-sleeping. SIDS is not an issue in the third world because most families sleep together - unless they are maybe in the more privileged who have adopted western ideas.
There is also a natural instinct whether awake or sleeping not to roll onto or smother another when sleeping in close proximity.
We co-slept for many years when out child was a baby and we would do it again - it is the safest approach with babies and young children while also being practical.
Regrettably we have a medical profession that knows very little and researchers out there that know even less about real life.
Yes, it's only been in the past few centuries with luxury that separate rooms were made for infants to go in and be separated...
Wow, the list never ends. Don’t discipline your child, do t sleep with your child, don’t touch your child. Now let’s arrest you for listening to us and neglecting your child. 🤦🏽♀️
Haha, that might be the next step... mad world.
Sad, but society seems to keep reaching new lows. It seems that common sense is becoming a thing of the past. People used to be "real" and behave responsibly, and were left to their own business. Now so much is turned upside down and called "bad" when it is completely normal. The real bad stuff is called "normal". Scarey!
Yes, pedophilia is normal... sleeping with child is bad... twilight zone...
I co-slept with my oldest until she was 3. And my youngest still shares a bedroom with me and she is 11 now. Some things simply should be left alone.
I got another idea when reading this. I don't know how govt hasn't realized this until now. "Some people use guns to kill others , lets take away everyone's gun"
LOl, yeah that's the argument...
my god...they reached even these spheres...
I wonder when breestfeeding will have sexual context too?
just shock and anger...
co-sleeping is extremely important for a baby!
there're so many researches already, and there're still people who fight with it....nonsense! the world is crazy
Breast feeding does. Some nurses are so brainwashed they call CPS on newborn getting breastfed at hospital.
really??!
so breastfeeding is forbidden??
i hate the worst situation is in my coutnry where it's supported very little, and there're only ads about baby's formula for feeding, but calling CPS is just beyond my understanding...
what a crazy idea the truth is that this helps to strengthen the bond between parents and child and above all gives the warmth to the newborn that needs, the fact of leaving a warm place as it is the placenta, takes the child to need body heat , even in this way a secure attachment is established
Good
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Nonsense and ingredient, that is what I tag such act by the CPS. When I was a child I was found of sleep close to my dad. I love the feeling lying close to him. I feel safe and protected. It is very wrong to Deny a bady child from sleeping with his/her patent.
Sometimes to become an expert in human things, people dehumanize themselves.
Maybe, in some specific cases is better to keep the baby away, but, in my personal experience, it was the same doctor who told me to take my baby with me in my bed.
I have to say, It scared me, I was afraid of cause some damage to the baby, but the doc said : the maternal instinct is very strong, with the baby with you you'll rest better ( I slept only 4 interrupted hours per night back then).
In fact, it was the perfect solution, I really rest better and even breast feeding at night was easier.
So, sometimes, is better to hear the grandmas advice than any "expert".
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That campaign with a knife was done after 515 babies died between 1990 thru 1997 while sleeping with a parent. Child protective service workers have no choice but to go check out a complaint, the answer could be as simple as finding someone in need of a crib or giving proper placement position instructions as to not get themselves sued if a baby dies after someone reported it. I think there would have to be a whole lot more wrong to warrant removal then just the fact the baby may spend some nights sleeping with a parent.
That campaign with a knife was done after 515 babies died between 1990 thru 1997 while sleeping with a parent. Child protective service workers have no choice but to go check out a complaint, the answer could be as simple as finding someone in need of a crib or giving proper placement position instructions as to not get themselves sued if a baby dies after someone reported it. I think there would have to be a whole lot more wrong to warrant removal then just the fact the baby may spend some nights sleeping with a parent.
Yup, it's pretty normal for many. Thanks for the feedback.