On 21 Sep 2005 at 8:31, Anne Andrianos wrote:

> Definitions are confusing and tems are used
> interchangably which makes communication difficult.
> Bedsharing (BS) means not only the parental bed, but a
> couch, reclining chair, futon, matress on the
> floor...any surface on which the mother (or other) and
> baby lie together. I think you can already guess how
> some babies die in these situations...and how the
> numbers of deaths on surfaces other than a bed inflate
> the BS death figures. Room sharing is co-sleeping,
> although some mean bedsharing, so please, be careful
> when you speak and explain your terms and ask for
> definitions. Their research and our commentary bears
> the same confusion. 

I feel that unsafe bedsharing is compared to the safest form of cot-
sleeping. This is an unfair deal. I wonder how the numbers would be 
if safe cosleeping, following all the rules that we know, would be 
compared to safe cot-sleeping.

> They support, encourage BF, but do accept that bed
> sharing is safe. One delegate said to me that "safe
> bed sharing is an oxymoron". 

If that is the case, I would say so is safe cot-sleeping....
-- 
Heleen Hayes
www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes

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