DS is a month old tomorrow and we have co-slept from birth (i.e. he and I share my double bed and DH sleeps separately). Have just had a health visitor visit and as usual lied through my teeth about co-sleeping when I would actually have liked to have had a chat about the issues it raises (e.g. problems with daytime naps that are plaguing me and being confined to my bedroom from 8pm until morning!).
But I didn't feel able to tell her or the midwives because the whole tone of the questions around this issue is 'you don't co-sleep, do you? because it's very dangerous'. I felt like I would be reported to social services or at the least given a lecture if I 'confessed'. I find this quite frustrating given that the evidence re the safety of co-sleeping (i.e. in the same bed) versus cot/moses basket sleeping is quite mixed as I understand it.
Has anyone come clean about this to HVs or midwives? What happened??
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lilysma · 25/08/2011 14:12
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