>3.  Where are the articles about the babies that die every year from ABM
>feeding?  Or from accidents that might happen because the parents are a room
>away from their babies, and cannot hear what's going on?

What about an article detailing infant death rates from car accidents?
 Children are at enormously greater risk of death and injury in a car than in
their parents' bed.  If we health care providers really want to make an
impact, we should advise parents never to take their babies out in a
car--that would save many, many lives each year. Of course, that advice
wouldn't be well received in this culture, so instead we explain how to keep
a child safe in a car seat.  Any deaths that occur despite use of a car seat
are considered exceptional.

Oh, wait, I have a novel idea!  Perhaps we could explain how to co-sleep
safely--no alcohol, no drugs, no waterbeds, etc.  Then the rare deaths that
occur could be considered exceptional rather than the result of a perverse
and unnatural practice.

What do you think?  Will it fly?

Judy Dunlap, RNc, BA, IBCLC