Baby in the family bed? A practice more commonly-used than he is not believed.

It is from the Middle Ages that the church asked the mothers not to make any more sleep the baby in the bed of the parents. The big collective beds left the place then in individual beds which remained in fact collective. Many parents always welcomed their children in their beds, as Henry IV who loved his son, future Louis XIII. It is only at the beginning of the XIXth century when habit was developed to give a bed to every child. While in the United States, the co-sleeping car or ’shared sleep‘ reopens debate to know if it is necessary or not to let sleep his child in the conjugal bed, in Europe, number of psychologists and conjugal advisers recommends to the young parents “not ‘to merge”, ‘not to teach the child to link their presence to sleep’ and ‘to differentiate life of couple and parents’ life’. What does be made to resolve the problems of baby’s sleep? Because it is well of it about that it is. Baby falls asleep badly, has nocturnal waking, fact of nightmares, he wakes up, he has his suckling If it is unpleasant to have to put back to bed a preschooler indefinitely, it is destabilising and annoying to have to wake up roughly, to take care of a baby who cries they do not know why.

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The French specialists recommend solitary sleep almost unanimously. It is norm, baby is invited to sleep as far as possible of his parents. The ’specialists ‘ maintain that by sleeping with his child, damage on its development is inflicted and that it is necessary to move it away from the couple to protect the intimacy of this last. To take the child in his bed poses problems: excess of heat and possibility of mechanical accidents linked to the weight of the parents, and most adult’s beds are not ideal: too soft, too many pillows, too many down Of studies published in the United States invite strongly the parents not to sleep with their baby to avoid any risk of asphyxia, of strangulation and others dead accidental. ‘It is not possible to say that the method of solitary sleep makes its proof and the strictest seem to give way today in France in a softer method, which envisages the distribution of the room during the first weeks, sometimes first months with more sympathy’, writes Nathalie Roques. But the baby must always regain to his own room, at the latest at the end of some months, when he is supposed to spend the night alone, possibly with an elder. Many couples welcome their child besides at least punctually in their bed. With for most between them, guilt feelings.

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‘Experience shows that during the sensitive stage of first six months, the presence of a baby in a conjugal room is not problematic. If the mother nurses, this solution gives even indisputable practical advantages and allows to the father to get involved straightaway’, explains Martin Sutter de la Commission MSN (cot death) of the Swiss Society of paediatrics. ‘A voice opposes for several years to the French uniform speech, written Nathalie Roques, Helen Stork* dares to introduce shared sleep in France as completely normal and advantageous for the child by leaning on anthropological observations and reflexion of psychological order. In fact, modern Occident where the practice of solitary sleep became otherwise habitual, anyway recommended by the persons identified as specialists, is outright an exception, and to make solitary sleep norm is simply an error. To let cry a baby is never a deliberately adopted solution, because the tears of the baby are considered first of all as the expression of a malaise which must be fought. ‘Shared sleep brings many benefits for the security of the baby: stimulation of the baby and therefore reduction of the periods of deep sleep, favoured feeding, easy surveillance of the parents, daily life made easier and weak tiredness and, after a serious analysis of all available data, and by inviting the parents to take some precautions, it appears that to make sleep a baby against a responsible adult is not more dangerous than any action of daily life. Some researchers think even that the shared bed is a factor of prevention for the cot death. In fact, every family should be able to find the solution which admits for it, without credit to suffer no of ideological pressure and without guilt! According to Nathalie Roques: ‘To find the gestures of a real nearness with our babies, it is enough in fact to trust in our hereditary heritage, in our instinct and especially, to our children.’

The milk of the mother is the best by nature of milk for the new-born baby. But infantile milk became necessary alternately or further to to the breast-feeding. About 150 references is. Baby skyline tower to avoid errors.

Feeding and/or infantile milk?

The most important is to encourage feeding, and to make it easier (60 % mothers nurse at the exit of motherhood, they are no more than 12 % at the end of one and a half month). At the same time, you should not make feel guilty the mothers who wish, cannot nurse or leave.

The choice of the infantile milk is generally offered by the pediatrician or in motherhood, according to the needs of the new-born baby. In the vast majority cases, the babies are born without particular problem and can accept a classical milk of first age.

The multitude of infantile milk

The infantile lacteal food is subjected to a very strict regulation on quantitative and qualitative plan. There are however variations between marks. They are mainly different according to their content of proteins, to the report soluble casein / proteins, from nature and from quantity of carbohydrates (anti-constipation, anti-regurgitations), of their enrichment in some (premature) fatty acids and the addition of meadow or probiotic, elements favourable to the flora intestinal (diarrheas,aropic, dermatitis, allergy).

What milk to choose?

• In the absence of any particular problem, a normal standard infantile milk is obvious (whatever is mark, they all introduce the same caloric density).
• If a baby does not support his milk, it is possible to change it. But attention, if a baby does not go well, you should not systematically accuse the milk. Change in very go of milk type am not either recommended.
• In case of regurgitations, they recommend an infantile said milk anti-regurgitation or AR.
• In case of constipation, they a special milk is chosen chill.
• In case of intolerance or of allergy in the proteins of cow’s milk, they turn to a milk based on hydrolysates pushed of proteins. This milk contains proteins having suffered an extensive hydrolysis, what diminishes their allergenic. In exceptional cases, this pushed hydrolysates draws away nevertheless an allergic reaction. They use substitutes of the milk then based on free amino acids, completely devoid to be able allergenic.

Before the age of 6 months, never of milk of soya in case of allergy in the cow’s milk!

Attention, before the age of 6 months, preparations based on soya are officially strongly disadvised because of possible risks (disturbances of endocrinal development) caused by to the presence of the soya isoflavones. Therefore never of milk of soya before the age of 6 months, even in case of allergy in the cow’s milk.
Besides, these substitutes based on vegetables (soya, almond, chestnut, rice), are incorrectly called ‘milk ‘. It is juices, that moreover, do not comply with the regulation of infantile feeding and that display to main deficiencies.
To note that all milk of other mammals than the cow .

Feeding is essential for the development of the new-born baby, but she also plays a role in the appearance of some diseases at the child and of the adult. And the ideal nutrition is the exclusive breast-feeding until 6 months, from which the only 15 % newborn babies benefit. The Academy of medicine issued impellent recommendations in the feeding, of which a lengthening of postnatal leave for the women who choose to nurse.

An inimitable milk

The Academy of medicine recommends the breast-feeding in first intention at the newborn baby then the new-born baby. This feeding must be exclusive for 6 months, otherwise at the very least for 4 months.

To encourage the women to make this choice, the Academy goes to the point of offering in the authorities to lengthen leave post motherhood in 4 or 6 months for the women who make the choice to put their child in the breast.

It is necessary to say that the feeding in France is little spread. Currently in France, only 15 % new-born babies are exclusively nursed until 6 months, against for example 80 % in Nordic countries.

Why is the exclusive feeding during 6 months recommended?

The beneficial effects of the breast-feeding are very broad and meet at the child’s, at the future adult and also at the mother.

Besides development and besides growth, feeding confers a protection against the digestive and respiratory infections. An exclusive feeding for at least 4 months would also have a preventive effect on allergies. The maternal milk also contributes to tell future obesity, diabetes of type 1 at the child and cardiovascular diseases at the adult.

At the mother, feeding makes easier the return of layers, weight loss, diminishes the risk of breast cancer and of ovary and favours the harmony of relation mother-child, what helps to tell the maltreatment.

When feeding is impossible or refused

Recommendations were also formulated in case of impossibility of feeding.

- Use only expressions for new-born baby based on cow’s milk norms of which are governed by French and European regulations. These must be given until the age of 1 year.

- The whole cow’s milk (UHT) or half deprived of fat must never be used before the age of 1 year (it is too rich in proteins, iron and in essential fatty acids).

- Milk hypoallergenic or expressions of soya ‘does not have their place in the feeding of the normal new-born baby’ definite the Academy. The first do not bring nutritional advantage in comparison with classical expressions for new-born baby, while seconds do not give protective effect in relation to allergy in the proteins of the cow’s milk or of infections.

- Finally, food diversification must start only after the age of 5 past months.