My BFF wrote a post about her son sleeping better next to Daddy and I have noticed that Gavin also sleeps better when either hubby or I are sleeping next to him.  Even when he is in the cot next to our bed, I notice he tends to stir more in the middle of the night compared to when he sleeps in our bed.

Much of the literature advise against co-sleeping, citing SIDS as one of the potential dangers, but there is a lot of evidence to date that indicate otherwise.  For instance, in The Science of Parenting, a number of studies were quoted with the findings that babies who co-slept actually breathed better at night.  It is believed that this is the reason why the incidence of SIDS is lower in countries where co-sleeping is the norm.

The new theory on the cause of SIDS is that some babies are born with minute heart defects so insignificant that they are not detected at birth.  These defects later manifest themselves leading to the inexplicable death of a baby.  Again, this is still a theory but it seems to fit in better with the statistics of the incidence of SIDS.

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