A review of the studies on the risks and benefits of colecho has been carried out, an issue that causes a lot of controversy, and despite the amount of studies there is, no consensus has been reached.
Researchers at the University of Ottawa, Ontario (Canada), have reviewed 40 studies that assessed the risks or benefits of sleeping with children and have concluded that Children under two years of age sharing a bed with their parents are at greater risk of sudden death, risk that increases if the parents are smokers. They also conclude that the smaller the baby, the greater the risk, especially if they are less than 10 weeks old.
As for the benefits, the star of the sleeping babies, with the mothers in this case, is that they receive more breastfeeding, what is not clear is whether this is a consequence of the colecho or is that the mothers who breastfeed their babies They have a greater tendency to sleep with them. In summary, this study published in the Archives of Pediarics & Adolescent Medicine leaves no doubt, only, Dr. Edwin A. Mitchell of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) throws a message for all parents, "the most safe for your baby to sleep is a crib in your bedroom during the first six months ", in addition to stressing that it is necessary to conduct more studies in search of reliable conclusions, although it will be complicated, fortunately because the percentage of sudden death in children is very small .
So, do you think it is not as bad as it seems that they want to paint it? Is it something more individual, impossible to extrapolarize the entire population?
