Sorry for the sending of the one just previous to this -- the touchpad on
this 'puter is really sensitive!

Heather said,

<< I wouldn't bet on it!  In fact, I would expect that 'furniture' deaths, the
 deaths caused by the fact the baby was entrapped, or suffocated on the
 mattress (as in water bed), would be at a much higher rate in the adult
 bed.

 Why? because a crib is designed  and made to prevent accidental entrapment
 or suffocation of a baby, whereas an adult bed is not. >>

In point of fact, Heather, the CPSC noted that the number of deaths per year
in cribs that are "furniture related" is 50/year.  The number of infant
deaths per year in adult beds (and we have no idea if they were with another
person in the bed or not) that was furniture/bedding related was 49.

So, if you take non-furniture related deaths out of the equation, the number
of deaths in each place is about equal.  And as I pointed out somewhere else,
why are we only talking about making cribs safer, not making adult beds safer
for children?
Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC
Wheaton, IL
www.bsccenter.org
"Further up and further in."  -- C.S. Lewis

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