13/11/2025
✅ Babies who sleep in a cot are just as well attached, and just as mentally and physically healthy as those who share a bed with their parent.
How do we know this?
👉🏽 5+ systematic reviews examining hundreds of babies, found no link between bed sharing and infant health, however, babies who bed share are:
🔴 At significantly increased risk for SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
🥱 Likely to wake more often overnight
🤱🏻 Likely to breast feed for longer (although the direction of this association is not understood - it's possible those who breastfeed are simply more likely to bed share, PLUS we must remember that breast feeding isn't every parents goal)
🎧 Tune in to Episode 107 of Brand New Little People: Does bedsharing have benefits? Dr Fallon & Dr Laura (PhDs, Sleep Practitioners) unpack what the science says about bedsharing.
LINKS IN BIO ⬇️
❤️ Listen on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music
🎥 Watch this episode on YouTube
✅ Need additional support? Join our Sombelle Paediatric Sleep Clinic Programs, where we have an entire chapter dedicated to helping you resolve sleep pressure difficulties. Or visit our wonderful sleep clinic, via Telehealth or in person if you're local to Melbourne.
🔴 If you choose to bedshare please follow the RedNose guidelines for safer cosleeping: https://rednose.org.au/safe-sleep-and-safer-pregnancy/newborn-to-1-year/co-sleeping-with-your-baby/
