On Sat, 6 Jul 2002 Helen Vermilya wrote

< Thanks, Virginia, I never thought about sofa and sleeping bag.  

Actually, Helen, my comments are based on evidence from an Alaskan study, by Gessner and colleagues.  I was too lazy to look for the reference when I wrote my earlier post.  The article is worth reading, as the authors found it rare in their population for infants sleeping with sober, undrugged parents in a proper bed to be SIDS victims.  The reference is below.
      Virginia
      In Brisbane, Queensland
  Gessner BD, Ives GC, Perham-Hester KA. Association between sudden infant death syndrome and prone sleep position, bed sharing, and sleeping outside an infant crib in Alaska. Pediatrics 2001;108(4):923-927.
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