Yo—40 percent of adults sleep with a baby blanket or stuffed animal. Are there any health benefits to doing so—or worse, consequences?
It may seem like sleeping with a stuffed animal or baby blanket is embarrassing after childhood, but it's not: "It's completely normal," says Bash. Phew.
"Usually, adults grow past needing those same sources of comfort," she says, "but in times of extreme stress or emotional despair, it is quite normal for an adult to revert to childhood sources of self-soothing and comfort to relieve anxiety and pain." Basically, they serve a similar function for you as an adult as they did for you as a child.
If you're still judging, consider this: All the experts agree it's a lot healthier to seek comfort in a stuffed animal than in something like alcohol, drugs, or sex. And because adequate sleep is so important, Rempala says that if a blanket or stuffed animal is part of how you create ideal conditions for falling asleep and staying asleep, that's a-okay. "If your childhood blanket or teddy bear is one of the ways you signal to your body that you're safe enough for sleep, why not keep it?" There are a few instances when sleeping with a blanket or stuffed animal stops being healthy.
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