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Comment by leokennis | Hacker News Reader

This is a simplistic potshot.

If you go to your baby every time it cries that could mean a lot of work, so much it ruins your own rest/health/sanity and makes you a worse parent at the times the baby isn’t crying.

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A defenseless child wants nothing more than to sleep next to their parent. Everyone sleeps better.

They also want a steady stream of cookies and iPad games and to be able to climb on high dangerous objects but maybe we shouldn’t indulge every want of a child.

Giving an infant a feeling of safety when they’re too small to comprehend their environment is not indulgence.

That's a way older kid than a baby though

Unless the baby gets caught in the covers or rolled upon during the night. Every approach likely has some pros and cons, so barring randomized and reproduced trials I take all claims as unproven.

Yes if you’re obese or inebriated then you shouldn’t sleep next to a baby, but in those cases you’re better off abstaining from food and drink for your own sake anyway.

Sure, but even if you're not these things still happen. To normal, healthy, reasonable people.

They don't happen to people who don't co-sleep.

> Everyone sleeps better.

Did you ever sleep next to an infant?

Yes

Yes, got 9 hours of sleep/day (interrupted by diaper change, sure) vs the initial 2/week

>Everyone sleeps better.

This is an absolute that is not true. Many people, even you, may - great! Others may not.

Fair—I was being too extreme.

Seriously, I wonder if it's father's saying stuff like this. You just need to go on YouTube and see the abuse that mother's get from infants and small children while co-sleeping.

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