Thanks, Helen. For some strange reason it's not referenced on Pubmed, so at least now I know why I couldn't find it. Anyway, have got it from the local hospital library now. As far as I can see it shows SIDS risk from bedsharing to be unaffected by feeding method (which we know anyway from his follow-up meta-analysis).

I'll explain where I'm coming from on this one. Given that we know that strict anti-bedsharing advice carries the risk of backfiring with a fussy baby (mum becomes so exhausted trying to avoid bedsharing yet not being able to settle the baby that she ends up falling asleep on the sofa with the baby and creating an avoidable tragedy), it worries me that pro-bedsharing organisations are so ready to give precisely this advice to formula-feeding mothers. These are mothers who a) may be reduced to horrible states of exhaustion and b) may be unintentionally putting their babies at more risk by being flat-out advised not to bedshare rather than being advised on minimal-risk bedsharing as possibly the better option if the alternative is proving exhausting. 

So this is an issue I want to blog about. It angers me that not only is this prescriptive advice being given to formula-feeders on such horribly poor evidence, but that this is being done by the very people who are so ready to champion bedsharing for *breastfeeding* mothers, protest overly restrictive rules, and argue vociferously against the validity of any study that shows bedsharing in general to be associated with increased risk. 

Best wishes,

Sarah

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