The lay version of "Preparation for Parenting" is called "On Becoming Babywise". I read through portions of this book this afternoon while my healthy, well-attached, secure and independent three year old nursling read books about tractors and trucks on the floor in the room nearby... A couple of interesting tidbits: that SIDS is four or five times less common in countries with a warm climate (most third world countries, according to Ezzo) so that it is the climate and not the co-sleeping that causes SIDS deaths to be lower. He also says that people in those countries only practice family bed because they are poor not because they think that it is good for their babies. Ezzo contends that co-sleeping actually increases the risk of SIDS (says that the AAP agrees with this contention) and cites cases of overlying as proof. My question is: if there has been overlying and therefore suffocation of a breastfeeding/co-sleeping infant, then is it SIDS?? Or is it a *known* cause- suffocation- and therefore has no place in the "statistics" of SIDS deaths? Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL, USA