A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.' In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents. James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's. In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure. Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat. Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first. The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

@anishmoonka I heard something different. There was a case where the parents fell asleep and accidentally suffocated the baby with their bodies during sleep. By the time they realized it, the child was dead. Fuck your studies.

@FunCryptoPosts @anishmoonka 30,000 deaths in over 115 years, that's like 3 per year and even in those 3 sleeping with parents might be rarest of rare case of death

@sanatani00007 @anishmoonka I am going to send this information to my neighbor. He lost his child in the same way, and I hope this information might bring him at least a little peace.

@FunCryptoPosts @sanatani00007 @anishmoonka No he didn't, you're just argumentative and using stories you've read online as your own.

@FunCryptoPosts @sanatani00007 @anishmoonka No he didn't

Maybe read it before you look like an absolute dumbass. Those numbers are for sudden infant death syndrome, not from suffocating by parent. Buffoon. Here's a shocker the majority of random sudden infant deaths come right after injecting a bunch of neurotoxins into the infant(we call them vaccines)

@FunCryptoPosts @sanatani00007 @anishmoonka Suck your neighbor, he will feel better

@FunCryptoPosts @sanatani00007 @anishmoonka Imagine you’re the neighbor, watching TV, and this guy sends you a screenshot of statistics via text message, reminding you that your baby is dead.