Does co-sleeping protect kids from obesity?

[BlackSpinner]

I think that the breastfeeding aspect is probably what is at work here. Most people who practice attachment parenting also breastfeed.

I breastfed all my kids but couldn't do the cosleeping thing.

. I would not have been able to sleep with an infant between us...I would have been hyperaware of the baby all of the time and would not have been able to sleep well.

I also found it very hard to lie down and nurse children.

Same here. I had the old fashioned pram parked beside the bed. I could just sit up, pick up the kid and feed it. My partner would change it and plop it back into the pram. Once she slept through the night, she moved into her own room and crib. The only time she co slept was during thunderstorms and once when she was 3 and she found a sippy bottle of grape juice that had gotten hidden behind some toys a week or so earlier, her room smelled like a cheap wine factory for a few days while we washed down the walls, floor, ceiling and all the furniture.