Date:    Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:23:14 -0400
From:    Jo-Anne Elder <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: bed-sharing

> Routine infant bed sharing was most common among black and Asian mothers,
> mothers under the age of 18, families with an annual income that fell below
> $20,000 and among families with infants younger than 8 weeks, the report
> indicates. Infant bed sharing was also more common among families in the
> South than in the Midwest.
>
>>Interesting. If we take out the age of the infants, aren't the other
>>factors contrary to findings on breastfeeding rates?

I think you'd have to know who was sampled for each study, how big
each study was (the one about co-sleeping and the one about who
breastfeeds), how representative the sample. Co-sleeping is very
culturally based, there is also economics involved. Cribs are
expensive as are enough bedrooms for everyone in a family to have
their own.
  Naomi Bar-Yam

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