Sheryl - in our polyclinics (municipal clinics that do deliveries) and in the large government hospital in Harare there are no cots or cribs for the babies. Babies are tucked in with their mothers for the duration of the hospital stay. The hospitals are quite proud of their practice of "bedding in" which they think is superior to "rooming in". The babies are delirious about it. I have never heard anyone express any concern about mothers rolling on babies or suffocating them. When you think about this logically MOST of the world's babies sleep in close body contact with their mothers and the rate of population growth in developing countries is high - so sleeping with your baby cannot be a risk factor for child survival. Pamela, Zimbabwe.