[DesertMom]

I just spoke with our international adoption doctor about this. We haven't brought our son home but on our visit trip it was obvious that he has been co-sleeping with his FM. We were scared too about co-sleeping and the increased risk of SIDS. Also, we really wanted our bedroom to be our own private space and were afraid that once we started co-sleeping that it would never be ours again.

Our doctor, who is very down to earth btw, said he feels this risk of SIDS is exaggerated in his opinion and as long as you have a firm mattress and no snuggly things for the baby to get tangled up or wedged into that it is fine. He recommended the sidecar sleeper that bamagirl was talking about as a good alternative. The baby has the security of being next to you but still in her own space. He said that this will make it easier to transition to a crib when the baby is ready. I also liked this idea because when we were co-sleeping in Guatemala we had a diaper leaking incident and I prefer to change a small sheet in a sidecar sleeper than maybe rolling into it myself and dealing with changing sheets on our bed every day.