Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments.

Hello everyone, this is Great Moments, where I share some of my favorite moments from my conversations on Great Company.

Something that's made me think, made me laugh or changed my perspective, and hopefully, hopefully there's something in it for you too. So are you ready? Let's get into it. One thing that is a sort of big topic at the moment is, you know, where your child sleeps. Uh-huh. Sleeping in the cot, does it sleep in your bed? Does it sleep in your room? You know, when I was a child, I slept in a court in a separate room, but there's a lot of conversation around maybe sleeping

with the child in your bed. What are the sort of ideas around this? I get very upset on behalf of

parents for this particular topic because there's so much research that says where your baby sleeps is

irrelevant. It's that they get sleep. Except for in the first year of life, it is there are lower

rates of SIDS, sudden if in death syndrome, when they are sleeping in a separate bed.

But that doesn't mean a separate room.

They can be sleeping.

The recommendation, certainly in the United States, the American Academy of Pediatrics

recommends sleeping in the same room with a, you know, like what's, I guess it's a cot. Yeah. It's like a three-sided cot that's kind of attached to the bed. Got it. For the first six months, six to 12 months. Or a separate crib in another room. Or you can bed share. I just work in a hospital so I wouldn't recommend bed sharing because it's, you know, but like if you don't have lots of bedding,

there's no obesity, there's no smoking, there's no substance use, it's culturally appropriate

for you, like do your thing. You have to make sure that you don't have any of those particular

challenges. Otherwise, it's quite dangerous. But what I think is frustrating is that there are people

that are certain. They'll tell you on social media or out in the world that you must bed share

in order to have a close attachment, or you must not sleep in the same room in order for your

child to get good sleep and thrive. And that's gobbledicoke.

There's so much robust data showing it just needs, like what matters is sleep, both the parents

sleep and the kids sleep. So all that other noise, like if, for example, your siblings baby is

sleeping in the other room and your sister, it's your sister?

Or your sister-in-law, who you said about?

My sister-in-law.

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