The Family Bed
Why bed sharing is for today
Published in
5 min readJan 29, 2020
I never intended to bed share, let alone have a family bed. For my first two daughters, I bought a crib. They were born almost 5 years apart. I needed a new one for each. I room shared out of necessity for my firstborn. We had no other bedroom for her.
Even though I started out with the “modern Western” parenting ideal for sleep, I always ended up with a child in…
