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Arm's Reach Products
Arm's Reach Co-sleepers have features to make it easy to use and beneficial for parent and baby. Arm's Reach Co-Sleepers make it possible for parents to have baby close at hand within the safety and security of a bedside bassinet that is truly within arm's reach your of bedside. Co-sleeping is the act of sleeping with one's own baby in the same bed. Co-sleepers provides: benefits such as easy access to baby; enhancement of the natural bonding process; more comfortable and efficient care giving such as breast feeding, soothing, comforting, diaper changing etc. than can be accomplished if the baby slept in a separate bed or bedroom. In relation to S.I.D.S. research, studies have found that cultures where parents commonly co-sleep with their babies have the lowest rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, S.I.D.S., in the world, while cultures where parents do not commonly sleep with their babies have the highest rate of S.I.D.S.. Current studies are starting to draw a correlation between S.I.D.S. and babies who sleep in rooms by themselves. The evidence suggests that some infants may fall into abnormally deep sleep and "forget to breathe". With a baby at arm's reach, parents are easily alerted to abnormal breathing or other signals of distress that may be missed if the baby were in a separate room.
There are two common criticisms of Cosleepers. First, there is a fear that a parent might roll over on the infant causing harm. Second, some parents wonder if Co sleepers might spoil the baby. These criticisms are easy to counter. Co-sleeping can be accomplished by having a baby sleep in a bed that attaches to the parent's bed in such a way as to allow parental access while preventing the baby from rolling out and into the parents' bed. The Arm's Reach Co-Sleeper bassinet is a product that accomplishes this goal. In regards to spoiling a baby, there is no evidence that using Cosleepers with a baby results in a spoiled child.
Breastfeeding is easier when your baby is nearby. A Co-sleeper is beneficial for breast feeding mothers and infants. When the infant is in close proximity to the nursing mother in a Cosleeper, a simple sound from the baby can cause the mother's milk to flow. Co-sleepers allow a mother to nurse her infant "upon demand" and according to many physicians this is better for baby and also stimulates the lactation process that results in a strong and normal milk production from the mother. Of course, bonding is a natural process that occurs between newborn babies and their parents. The bonding process is naturally strongest between mother and baby in the earliest part of the baby's life for the simple reason that it is the mother who is most often near the baby providing warmth, food and security. It is natural to assume that bonding is enhanced between parent and child when there is increased time spent in close proximity to one another as in a co-sleeper.
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