Baby sleeping arrangements

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Hi!

So im aware that baby sleeping in the same room as parents seems to lower the risk of SIDS, but can anyone tell me why?

I cant find any info on the actual reasoning behind it

I think they use your breathing to help regulate thur own

Because the baby listens to you breathing & regulates their breathing.

I believe it’s on the nhs website.

No one really knows for sure why. There are theories but nothing concrete. It could partly be because parents who sleep with their children in the room are more likely to be attentive parents in general, because they may be more likely to be breastfeeding, which lowers SIDS risk, there's a theory about them hearing you breathe but I have doubts about that one (for that, baby would need to not just be in same room but close enough to hear you breathe and with no white noise etc).

if you sleep in the same room as a baby you can usually hear when they struggle to breath. DN was a premie and regularly forgot how to breathe and anyone who slept in the same room could hear him stop breathing. You go from fast asleep to alert in 2 seconds flat, pinch his ears and put the dummy back in, and he’d breathe again

Not necessarily directly sids related as such but if anything happened to them you'd be able to be there quicker.

I thought it was for them to regulate their breathing

Completely off topic but I LOVE your username @OnlyFoolsnMothers

I believe it's because you breathe out carbon dioxide which somehow stimulates their breathing