Just thought you all might be bemused to learn that a PhD researcher from
Karolinska Institute in Stockholm who held a day-long seminar about
Baby-Friendly practice at my hospital today, actually stated that they
recommend bedsharing because 'it protects against SIDS'.
Unfortunately they are not sitting on any secret studies that actually give
any more credence to this claim, but there is reported to be work in
progress to such an end in Uppsala, where, according to this same speaker,
they have now gotten rid of all the baby beds AND baby clothes on
post-partum, simply keeping the babies skin to skin with mother (relieved by
father, also S2S, when necessary) for the entire one or two days they are in
the ward.
This person is in the research group which includes K Uvnas-Moberg, K
Christensson, A-M Widstrom, A-B Ransjo-Arvidsson, A-S Matthiesen, K
Svensson, and W Jonas.  Not just any old BF researchers, in other words.
I hope it's true about the ongoing research but can't imagine that it is
experimental or includes randomization to a bedsharing or not bedsharing
group, though I could be wrong.  Kerstin Hedberg-Nyquist, if you are reading
this, can you enlighten us?

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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