While it’s perfectly natural to want to feed your baby in bed it’s safest to put your baby back in their cot, after feeding, and before you go to sleep, especially in the first 3 months. There is a link between sharing a bed and cot death, particularly, if you or your partner:

• are smokers (no matter where or when you smoke)
• have recently drunk any alcohol
• have taken medication or drugs that make you sleep more heavily (including prescribed drugs such as Methadone)
• are very tired

There is also a risk that you might roll over in your sleep and suffocate your baby, or that your baby could get caught between the wall and the bed, or could roll out of an adult bed and be injured. It is also extremely unsafe for anyone to sleep with a baby on a sofa or armchair.

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