Information for Health Professionals

This area of the BedNest website is for health professionals who work with peri-natal women. We aim to provide relevant information and resources to help support women using the BedNest to breastfeed and bond with their babies.

The BedNest won the Concept 2005 Design Award at the Baby& Child International Fair, NEC, Birmingham.

3-sided bedside crib
4-sided freestanding crib
height adjustment
secure attachment.

Attached securely to the bed the BedNest creates
one safe seamless continuous sleeping surface which by
reducing the need to get out of bed for each feed means that
night time feeds are less disturbed thereby
supporting mothers to breast feed for longer.

The near proximity of mother to her baby ensures
closeness and security which because of the constant
comfort of physical contact promotes and facilitates bonding giving both
peace of mind so that
mother and baby are content, safe and secure.

www.bednest.com

info: 07918 681021

There are a number of articles from the Parent Infant Sleep Lab & Infant and Child Research Centre, Department of Anthropology, University of Durham supporting the use of a side-car crib such as the BedNest.

The side-car crib appears to be the most effective and safest means of maintaining extended mother-infant contact for the duration of the postpartum hospital stay. (Ball, H. L., Ward-Platt, M. P., Heslop E., Leech S. J., and Brown K. 2006. Randomised trial of mother-infant sleep proximity on the post-natal ward: Implications for breastfeeding initiation and infant safety. Arch. Dis. Child. 91:1005)

We would recommend this definitive article McKenna, J. J., Ball, H. L., and Gettler, L. T. Mother-Infant Cosleeping, Breastfeeding and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: What Biological Anthropology Has Discovered About Normal Infant Sleep and Pediatric Sleep Medicine. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology. 50:133-161 (2007)

Latest information:

UK National Breastfeeding Awareness Week 11-17 May 2008 (which focused on supporting women to breast feed for longer).
(http://www.breastfeeding.nhs.uk/en/fe/page.asp?nl=5&n2=13)

Save a Baby Month - FSID campaign for month of May 2008.
(http://www.fsid.org.uk/save-a-baby-month2.html)

UNICEF Baby Friendly Initiative & FSID joint leaflet published a joint leaflet clarifying when to and when not to have baby in mother’s bed.
(SharingBedLeaflet.pdf)

RCM guidance paper and position statement on Bed Sharing and Co-sleeping.
(1_Bed_Sharing.pdf)
(PS_Bed_Sharing.pdf)

RCM A Report of the findings of the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) United Kingdom (UK) National Bed Sharing Audit.
(RCM_Bed_Sharing.pdf)

  

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