Co-Sleeping with Your Baby Seen as 'Child Abuse' and a 'Reason' for Kidnapping Them

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.

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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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