Co-sleeping

There was something on the evening news yesterday about co-sleeping being dangerous. 

I disagree. 

Before I was a mother myself I never really thought about co-sleeping. I didn't really think beyond a baby sleeping in their cot in the same room. I never thought that co-sleeping would be something I done. But then before I was a mother I had no idea about the exhaustion that came with motherhood. 

After a traumatic birth I had serious tearing so couldn't properly sit up for a long time. This meant I would breast feed that vast majority of the time lying down or slouching far enough back that I wasn't sitting. 

To begin with I put bug back in his Moses basket which had set up camp next to my bed. I would occasionally wake up in a half asleep panic that I had fallen asleep with my baby in my bed. It reached the point where I was that exhausted I was scared to nurse half sitting up incase I fell asleep. For me it felt safer to just co-sleep. Then I could make sure we were both comfortable and that my baby was safe. While I was breast feeding I never really fell into a deep sleep anyway. It is designed that way or was it just the waking every two hour that stopped that. 

The more I thought about it the more it felt much more natural. My son was instantly comforted being close to mummy and I felt more rested. Surely it's against my own instinct to not sleep snuggled with my tiny newborn?

Obviously this is just my own opinion on it. I know this is a rather heated subject. Maybe I was taking a risk but my son is now three years old, the co-sleeping days are behind us and it's not something I regret.