AAPs policy statement against co-sleeping can be viewed at:
http://www.aap.org/policy/pe000272.html

May 1999 news release from AAP can be viewed at:
http://www.aap.org/advocacy/releases/mayinf.htm

Another study about SIDS and positioning which recommends against
co-sleeping is:

McKenna JJ, Mosko S, Dungy C, McAninch J. Sleep and arousal patterns of
co-sleeping human mother/infant
pairs: a preliminary physiological study with implications for the study of
suddent infant death syndrome (SIDS). Am J
Phys Anthropol. 1990;83:331-347 and a policy statement about that study can
be viewed at:

http://www.aap.org/policy/04791.html

Hope this helps.
Christine in Connecticut

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From: M. O'Hara-Hawn <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, July 13, 1999 5:14 PM
Subject: co-sleeping and SIDS


>Hi,
>
>Do any of you have specifics of cases where medical examiners / coroners
>assumed that co-sleeping was causally related to an infant death, just
>because the infant happened to die while in the family bed?  An Oregon
>coroner was brought up @ the Evergreen conference on parenting this
>spring, but without the specifics I need to try to write a response to an
>article in Pediatrics which concludes that co-sleeping should be
>prohibited. Thanks, MA
>
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