Let's Spend the Night Together

Cosleeping and Independence 

"Let's spend the night together", the title of this post, has a very appropriate second line... "now I need you more than ever". This is a classic Rolling Stones song but those two lines apply to every newborn baby's plea to their parents upon being brought out of the safety of the womb.


It's time parents get the correct message about cosleeping with their children. Dire warnings against infant bed sharing backfired. Many young parents have obeyed the unfounded warnings of infant bed sharing for much too long. Untrusting of their innate ability, and of their child's "motives" in giving perfectly clear signals (crying), parents have been misguided into forcing their newborns and infants to sleep alone.

Respecting Each Newborn - 5 Reasons Why

The Center for the Developing Child at Harvard University has created, in my opinion, a supremely clear five-step explanation as to the importance of early childhood development and education for every newborn.

Following are the five points in conclusion: 

1. Getting things right the first time is easier and more effective than trying to fix them later. The early years matter because, in the first few years of life, 700 new neural connections are formed every second.