Sleep with the children, what we call colecho, is an option that has many advantages, and many of them contradict criticisms of this custom, increasingly widespread in our western societies, habitual in other cultures and that has been the way children have slept since the beginning of the History of Humanity.
Colecho facilitates breastfeeding and night feeding
Breastfeeding It is a natural process that is optimal, when it is produced on demand, since it is the sucking of the baby that regulates the production and favors the maintenance of an adequate relation of the available supply of milk. The more suction there will be, if there are no medical or postural problems, more milk.
Babies, in addition, need breastfeeding at night to maintain, not only a correct production adequate to their needs, but also the adequate supply of nutrients and amount of milk ingested and non-interfering breastfeeding habits. In addition, during the first months, not meeting their need for food can cause nocturnal hypoglycemia.
Breastfeeding is simple at night if the baby is next to the mother. It will simply be necessary to bring it to the chest if it is small and, later, he will approach the chest and suck what he needs.
The mother just has to wake up, she will be able to recover the dream immediately and, in fact, the mothers who collect many times do not know how to say the number of awakenings of the child, because they themselves do not reveal themselves.
If the baby is not breastfed She will also benefit, in her nocturnal feeding, from the colecho, since the mother can have what it takes to make the bottle in the same room and give it as quickly and without having to get up too much. And in addition, we can offer our son all the other advantages associated with the school: privacy, security and rest.
Parents rest more with the colecho
Linking with the above, sleep with the baby too favors rest of the mother, who does not have to get out of bed to take care of her baby when she wakes up to eat or for another physical reason such as uncovering or feeling bad. Simply, bringing it closer to your body, it comforts you and you can continue sleeping without revealing yourself.
The father also rests, the baby's cries do not wake him up and, if it is not food what the child asks for or does not specifically claim contact with the mother, he can change or hug him without leaving the bed.
The family recovers lost time
Our work habits make many families enjoy a few hours a day together. With the colecho they are offered an opportunity to recover that lost time and share more physical and emotional contact.
Couples often want to sleep together not only for sex, but also for talking, hugging, pampering and waking up together. With children this happens the same, sleeping with them makes the family can share the sweet dream and also all those moments of intimacy and affection that night time offers. And for sex, if there is time and strength with a baby at home, there is always opportunity and place in other places in the house (for example, in the room that we would have destined for the crib).
Children feel better
Crying baby Sometimes it responds to physical needs, but at other times it is because of fear, cold, pain, need for contact and pampering or discomfort. The sooner we meet these needs, whether they are material or emotional, the shorter the time in which the child is suffering from that problem and the less he will cry, because if we do not attend to it soon, he may later feel nervous or scared, and it will take much longer to leave of crying and feeling calm and comforted.
Knowing that your parents will see you immediately makes the baby feel safer when going to sleep, it takes more or less to catch the dream, and also, you will feel calmer while you sleep. There are no reasons to fear loneliness or obscurity, because the people he loves and protects are at his side and even if he wakes up, he feels them close, he listens to them, he touches and smells them, making there are no reasons to ask for that company Well, they already have it just by extending their little hand.
That encourages good sleeping habits. The physical and emotional needs are covered, the child can fall asleep suckling, which is natural in the baby, and has a feeling of night protection that will make the time to go to sleep be lived as something pleasant.
Of course, it may happen that the child does not fall asleep immediately when his parents consider it the time. Sometimes there are daily experiences that will have disturbed him and he needs to express that tension in his own way. Sometimes you are simply not tired or too disturbed to relax. Is there a better place than the family bed to spend that time telling stories, giving pampering or letting him play with us?
The better we sleep, the better we will be in the morning
Enough tired is caring for a baby to face the next day without being able to sleep all night. Sleeping with our son is not going to eliminate his awakenings, but if he reduces them and makes them much simpler than, having attended promptly, we will all get back to sleep sooner. And of course, the better we sleep, more rested, more courageous and healthier we will feel the next morning, when we expect another day of care for our child and work, either at home or outside it.
Sleeping with children is normal and natural, and it also has many advantages for parents and children and provides many opportunities to feel good. Colecho is an option that, practiced safely, offers many things in favor of families. And about the sex or intimacy of the couple, there will be many solutions that we can surely implement without giving up sleeping together.
