Meet the mum who shares a bed with her two children and partner… and is still breastfeeding her three-year-old daughter
Lucy AitkenRead has been sharing her bed for five years and believes it is the best approach
CO-SLEEPING and the long-term breastfeeding of your children are practices that often attract controversy.
However, a New Zealand based mum swears by both – and believes that they are the best approaches when it comes to raising children.
While she said she never intended to sleep in the same bed as her two children, writer,
, a writer, has been doing both for five years and says that she never originally intended to sleep in the same bed as her kids.
But, when her first child, Ramona, was born, she couldn’t consider sleeping in a different room from the tot.
The family sleep comfortably as they all sleep in a giant bed formed from king and queen mattress’ that have been pushed together.
They all live in a yurt on an organic farm in New Zealand, after emigrating from London several years ago.
“I decided that I would parent in a way that would cause the least amount of cortisol.”