The Co-Sleeping Controversy: What Parents Are Getting Totally Wrong | @cosleepy
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
5 • 9.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Cosleeping is one of the most controversial parenting choices-today’s guest thinks it’s only controversial because parents are uninformed of the benefits and how to safely do it.
Tiffany Belanger, founder of Cosleepy, is one of the most outspoken voices challenging mainstream infant sleep culture. We talk about why babies are wired for closeness, the biological benefits of cosleeping, and exactly how to safely do it.
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| 0:00.0 | Cryed out doesn't really train your baby to sleep. It kind of trains them just to be quiet and silent. One of the most cited benefits of co-sleeping is breastfeeding success. What did the study show? More breastfeeding sessions throughout the night, and some are half asleep. They don't even have to fully wake up, and many times the mom sleeps right through them. They found that the moms who breastfeed in bedshare throughout the night, breastfeed for like two to three years. Brastfeeding parents are like the parents who should be |
| 0:25.6 | bedsharing. Today's guest strongly believes that letting your baby cry it out isn't good parenting, and sleeping together is actually |
| 0:55.3 | better for both of you. That idea alone has sparked outrage, headlines, and a whole lot of |
| 1:00.6 | side-eye from the parenting establishment, but it's also what millions of exhausted parents are |
| 1:06.2 | opting to do. Tiffany Bellinger is the founder of co-sleepy, the leading education platform for safe |
| 1:12.6 | co-sleeping. She believes babies are biologically wired to be close, cry it out, isn't the gold |
| 1:17.9 | standard we've been sold, and co-sleeping, when done intentionally and safely, can have real |
| 1:22.6 | benefits for families. Tiffany changed the trajectory of her career after becoming a mother and finding nothing |
| 1:28.1 | but fear-based messaging and horror stories when she desperately searched for help on getting her kids to sleep. |
| 1:33.4 | Her work has been featured in glamour, the telegraph, and the cut, and she's now writing a |
| 1:37.5 | forthcoming book. Whether you agree with her or not, this conversation will challenge what you |
| 1:41.5 | think you know about infant sleep and why parents deserve better information than let them cry. |
| 1:46.7 | Watch this episode on the real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on Spotify. |
| 1:51.1 | We're healing a sick culture twice a week, Mondays and Thursdays. |
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| 1:58.7 | Please welcome author and founder of co-sleepy, Tiffany |
| 2:01.8 | Bellinger, to Culture Apothecary. Co-sleeping is one of the most polarizing topics in |
| 2:10.0 | modern parenting. Some say it saves mom's mental health. Others say it undermines safety |
| 2:15.1 | and structure and authority. Today I really want to explore both. |
| 2:19.4 | You're pro-co-sleeping, but are you anti-sleep training or only anti-cried out? |
| 2:25.1 | See, that's the thing. With sleep training, it's like a spectrum. There's some people with the extinction method of cry-it-out, which is pretty extreme in my opinion. |
| 2:33.4 | And then you have other people who try |
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