A freind of mine was recently telling me (yes Penelope this was you if
you're reading this) about some videos she had been watching of formula
feeding mothers sleeping with their babies and breastfeeding mothers doing
the same thing. I've passed this on by email to the American Academy of
Pediatricians and the SIDS foundation in the States. The breastfeedng
mothers, as many of us know from personal experience, made safe space for
their babies in the bed with their bodies and arms whilst asleep. Conversely
she reported seeing the formula feeding mothers spend most of their sleeping
time with their backs to the baby.
This struck me as making cosleeping dangerous for the formula fed babies but
not for the breastfed babies.
If anyone has more research on this in case they come back to me I'd be
interested to hear about it.

Susan Stockwell
Poole UK


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