Infants bed-sharing with mothers
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- 1 December 2004
- journal article
- perspectives
- Published by BMJ in Archives of Disease in Childhood
- Vol. 89 (12) , 1082-1083
- https://doi.org/10.1136/adc.2004.054312
Abstract
The publication in the Lancet of the European Concerted Action on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) (ECAS study)1 resulted in front page headlines such as “Don’t sleep with your baby” (Daily Telegraph: D Derbyshire, Science Correspondent, 16 January 2004). Yet the ECAS study said nothing new about bed-sharing and cot death: both the CESDI study (Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirth and Death in Infancy),2 data from New Zealand,3 and work from Ireland4 have superficially come to similar conclusions. Is the quality of evidence such that paediatricians, midwives, and health visitors should reasonably dissuade mothers from bed-sharing or co-sleeping, or is there more to it than that?Keywords
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