No idea why you get so heavily downvoted. We did the same, the midwife was also okay and we even did a first aid training for babies, where suffocation in bed was a topic, but that’s due to the blanked, not the parent.
I also just checked the statistics. Out of all suffocation deaths only 2.8% were because of someone else rolling over the baby. I believe most of the parents were intoxicated. So the real death rate by suffocation due to a parent rolling over them is super slim.
Someone posted a link from 2013, so some of this info is outdated. Some of it might be different approaches in different cultures and countries. And people just love being right, don’t they, and they love getting angry when it’s for the ‘protection of children’. Especially when they think the opponent is a ‘dirty hippie’ following any kind of non-mainstream woo-woo ideas. I’m just sorry for their kids. A baby is a small mammal and their sense of safety directly derives from closeness with the caretaker. Babies who feel safe are more likely to turn into adults who feel safe.
True, I can see that with other parents on the playground, how they treat their kids. At the same time, I also got treated like that and I still turned out okay I believe. But my goals are definitely different, as I do everything for my kids, constantly consume books or even go yo in-person trainings/courses, just so that I can create a good environment for them and give them everything they need to be successful in life.
I agree. Unless we’re drugged, we’re far more aware of our surroundings when asleep than most people realize. It’s very unlikely that an undrugged person would roll over onto a baby and suffocate it.
No, you are not unconscious when you sleep. You are in a state of reduced consciousness that is fundamentally different from medical unconsciousness. A review in Nature Reviews Neuroscience described sleep as a “reversible behavioral state of perceptual disengagement from the environment.” That is a critical distinction: you are disengaged, not disconnected.
Your brain can still process external stimuli during sleep. A parent wakes to their baby’s cry but sleeps through louder ambient noise. You respond to your own name spoken softly but ignore a stranger’s name at the same volume. These selective responses are impossible in true unconsciousness.
No idea why you get so heavily downvoted. We did the same, the midwife was also okay and we even did a first aid training for babies, where suffocation in bed was a topic, but that’s due to the blanked, not the parent.
I also just checked the statistics. Out of all suffocation deaths only 2.8% were because of someone else rolling over the baby. I believe most of the parents were intoxicated. So the real death rate by suffocation due to a parent rolling over them is super slim.
Someone posted a link from 2013, so some of this info is outdated. Some of it might be different approaches in different cultures and countries. And people just love being right, don’t they, and they love getting angry when it’s for the ‘protection of children’. Especially when they think the opponent is a ‘dirty hippie’ following any kind of non-mainstream woo-woo ideas. I’m just sorry for their kids. A baby is a small mammal and their sense of safety directly derives from closeness with the caretaker. Babies who feel safe are more likely to turn into adults who feel safe.
True, I can see that with other parents on the playground, how they treat their kids. At the same time, I also got treated like that and I still turned out okay I believe. But my goals are definitely different, as I do everything for my kids, constantly consume books or even go yo in-person trainings/courses, just so that I can create a good environment for them and give them everything they need to be successful in life.
I agree. Unless we’re drugged, we’re far more aware of our surroundings when asleep than most people realize. It’s very unlikely that an undrugged person would roll over onto a baby and suffocate it.