The Ultimate Sleepover

Baby sleeps between us in our bed. She wiggles, mommy feeds her, and we sleep on. Passionate arguments are occasionally made to us, and in the public sphere, that co-sleeping, as the practice is known, is simply too dangerous for babies to justify any imagined benefits for the child or the parents.

Our view is that babies’ souls are sometimes damaged by forced separation from mom and dad. Our other view is that every family must determine for itself what makes sense. The rapture that waking up as a family brings is worth a lot to us; so, too, is the ability of baby to find my wife’s breast in the semi-darkness and snortle through another perfect feeding without so much as a single whimper, let alone an anguished cry in the night.