> >Noting that bed-sharing was a factor in about half of the 99 sudden infant
> >deaths during the past 4 1/2 years, Dr. Peter L. Beilenson, the city's
> >health commissioner, issued a warning to let babies sleep alone.


>And where did the other half sleep ...?

Good point, well said. :)

I am not familiar with the research on SIDS.
Does anyone have a sense of the quality of SIDS research? By that I mean
that SIDS is hard to define, and is defined differently in different
places.
My understanding is that SIDS is defined as death of an infant under 1
year
where the cause of death cannot be found. Once someone finds cause of
death
it's not SIDS anymore. That is complicated by the fact that different
doctors have more experience and are better at finding other causes of
death.
Also, all research by definition has to be after the fact. How does that
influence the quality of the findings?
If this has been discussed before on lactnet in detail, I missed it. Feel
free to ignore this in favor of more relevant, not already discussed
topics.

Naomi Bar-Yam

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