The infant s crib portable crib play yard or bassinet should be placed in the parent s bedroom for at least 6 months but preferably a year.
Aap baby sleep in parents room.
Lori feldman winter a co author of the aap guidelines and pediatrics researcher.
We assessed the association between room sharing and sleep outcomes.
Place your baby s crib bassinet portable crib or play yard in your bedroom close to your bed.
Infants should sleep in the parents room close to the parents bed but on a separate surface room sharing.
Room share keep baby s sleep area in the same room where you sleep for the first 6 months or ideally for the first year.
A new study casts doubt on whether that s a good recommendation.
The american academy of pediatrics recommends infant parent room sharing until age 1.
But some experts say scientific evidence does not back up the guidelines.
The aap makes a distinction between room sharing and bed sharing saying that they recommend the former and not the latter.
The american academy of pediatrics recently updated its safe sleep guidelines to advise parents to share a room but not a bed with baby until 6 months old and ideally a year.
While the aap still advises against bed sharing the organization now recognizes that bed sharing happens and they want to help parents do it safely by offering co sleeping guidelines.
The intervention nurses start infants growing on healthy trajectories study is an obesity prevention trial comparing a responsive parenting intervention with a safety control among primiparous mother infant dyads.
He should sleep in his own crib or bassinet or in a co sleeper safely attached to the bed but shouldn t be in his own room until he is at least 6 months better 12 months.
Sleeping in the same room but not in the same bed may reduce babies risk of sids by up to 50 percent said dr.
According to the american academy of pediatrics aap the best place for a baby to sleep is in his parents bedroom.