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Real men sleep with their kids: a father's take on sharing a family bed.

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My son is asleep downstairs, in my bed. He's been sleeping in my bed every night for over two years. This is where he should sleep. This is where all my children will sleep. I can't imagine it any other way.

But I haven't always felt this way. Twenty-six months ago, for instance, it hadn't occurred to me that my children would share sleep with me. I suppose I assumed they would spend a few weeks there as infants, but then you moved them into cribs, right? Isn't that what cribs are for? For sleeping children?

My wife is the smart one. She read up on shared sleep. (She reads up on everything.) She read about all the advantages of having children sleep in your bed. She talked to people who'd done it, and she talked me into letting our son into our bed.

If you're a man with a new baby who's always telling people you're jealous of the bond between mother and child, and if your child isn't yet sleeping in your bed, I say to you: Bring your baby in,...

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