Co-Sleeping

HEV 100 Co-sleeping & Breastfeeding Name: Kaylee Hanson Class ID#: 29

Before asking my parents these questions, I had no idea how I was brought up as a baby or what my parents did to make sure I was safe. I asked my mother the questions you assigned, and she was very excited that I was finally curious about my infancy. My mother said I slept on my back, because she knew I could suffocate if I slept on my stomach. She also mentioned for the first few months after I was born, I slept in the same room as her and my father. I slept next to her side of the bed in a bassinet so she could wake up every time I started crying. I never slept in the same bed as my parents because my father worked midnights as a policeman, and he did not want to wake me up by moving around in bed whenever he woke up or came home from work. When I was a baby, my mother had a lot of time to spend with me. The reason for this is because I broke her tailbone while she was in labor with me. So along with maternity leave from work, she had to recover from a broken tailbone. According to my mother, every time she breastfed me, I would fall asleep and she would rock me. If she was not rocking me, she had me in a sling on her back and would carry me around while she did chores around the house. Either way, I would always be close to her for at least the first year of my life. My mother also said that she breastfed me on demand because she was a stay at home mom for the first couple years of my life. There was no schedule she had to follow, so she chose to breastfeed me whenever I needed to. Being a stay at home mom also meant having more time to breastfeed me, which she did for 13 or 14 months.

This article is about the relationship and growth between mother and child during the first few months of birth. It talks about American ways of putting their child to sleep. In the Western culture, we focus more on independence and self-sufficiency for our baby. Therefore, we have them sleep in a...