• Co-sleeping infants may sleep more peacefully than other babies.the newborn image by Sergey Galushko from Fotolia.com
  
  The practice of a baby sleeping with her mom and dad proves a controversial topic. While some media has attempted to discourage this behavior known as co-sleeping, other research proves that co-sleeping can have significant advantages in the parent-child relationship. Co-sleeping can bring a family together in the right family culture, according to the University of Notre Dame Behavioral Sleep Laboratory.
  
  

Breastfeeding

• Having the baby sleep with the parents encourages breastfeeding, according to kidshealth.org. This means that the baby can breastfeed when hungry rather than wait until morning. If the mother wants to breastfeed throughout the night, this also enables her to stay in bed.
  
  

Peaceful Sleep

• Askdrsears.com states that infants who sleep with parents rarely cry during the night or startle during sleep. Waking during the night affects baby's sleep pattern. An infant who sleeps with his parents learns to sleep throughout the night.
  
  

Emotional Response

• The baby sleeping with the parents encourages a positive emotional response, according to the University of Notre Dame Behavioral Sleep Laboratory. An infant who sleeps regularly with her parents learns to understand that her parents always will show availability to emotional problems. This develops an early supportive relationship between the parent and child.
  
  

Attachment

• Kidshealth.org states that parents who spend the day separated from the baby regain a close feeling when the baby sleeps with them. This may help form an attachment that the baby becomes unable to form with the absent parent. The parent may also feel more useful if able to care for the infant throughout the night.
  
  

SIDS Risk Decreased

• An infant who sleeps in the bed with his parents poses less of a risk for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, according to AskDrSears.com. Co-sleeping infants sleep more on their back or side, causing a decrease in the chance of suffocation. The carbon dioxide that the parents breathe may actually work to stimulate the breathing of the baby.