Note in reference to this "study" that it is completely meaningless to say
that half the babies who died were sleeping with someone else at the time
when we have no idea how many babies in the area sleep with an adult. If 50%
of babies sleep with adults, and co-sleeping has no effect on SIDS, then you
would expect to see 50% of SIDS deaths happening when babies co-sleep. If
75% of babies co-sleep, and only half of the SIDS babies were co-sleepers,
then co-sleeping clearly has a protective effect.

The authors are assuming that fewer than half of the babies in that
community co-sleep. Well, I write about parenting and interview a lot of
parents, and the percentage who co-sleep is pretty high and getting higher.
If it has passed 50%, then this study actually shows that co-sleeping
protects against SIDS.

Teresa Pitman
Guelph, Ontario

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