Jan Barger wrote about someone in a lecture who said: "Our coroner insists
that every baby be in his own crib because a mother thought her baby was her
pillow and threw it onto the floor & killed it."

Makes me wonder what was going on with the mother, that she would mistake her
baby for a pillow!  A psychotic break? Alcohol or other intoxicant use?
 Maybe she shook the baby to stop its crying and didn't want to admit it?
Someone else didn't want the baby there?  I bet there's more to the story ...

I wonder if the coronor would also insist that pacifiers be banned because a
baby choked to death on one?  Would he also argue against immunizations
because a baby had an adverse reaction to one?  This list could go on and
on...

Linda Smith, wishing we could thoroughly compare the risk of deaths from
cribs - falling out, dangerous paint, trapping spaces, and inappropriate
mattress covers to the mystical "smothering" deaths from co-sleeping.
 Dayton, OH