Your Prepared Bedside

Sleeping within 5 feet of an adult (not jus the birthing or breastfeeding adult) is one of the 5 recommended things implemented to reduce SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrom. Preparing your bedside sleeping arrangement ahead of time is the surest way to have baby sleeping safely in an intentional space so that parents and caregivers are never accidentally in a position of sleep that was not intentional and therefore unintentionally dangerous for their tiny newborn. Here's what we know from our own experience and the collective knowledge of our Austin Village of birth-workers, doulas and parents alike, that set them up for success those first tender weeks, while they adjusted to life with a new tiny member added.