On 24 Jul 2005 at 19:51, Pamela Mazzella Di Bosco wrote:

> Okay, thanks Nikki for letting me further remain distracted from T 
> Day. 
> 
> I too read the article.  I have several questions about the study  and
> the interpretation of the data.  

> SIDS research is not easy and I do understand the desire to be able to
> 'do'  something that will lower that risk.  But, the truth is still
> very real  that more babies die of SIDS in their cribs than they do in
> the parental  bed.  Of course, the reason given for that is that more
> babies sleep in  cribs than in the mother's bed.  Which of course can
> be true...like I said,  frustrating.

The number may not be that different, I was at a presentation of Mrs 
Helen Ball last year and she found a number 47% of children co-sleep 
at any time of the childs infancy at least part of the night (UK 
research, 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/sleep.lab/blair%20and%20ball%202004.pdf ). If 
this is true, they might as well be informed about safe co-sleeping 
practices! You can find Mrs. Balls research on 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/sleep.lab/
She has many interesting articles on the subject, a.o. this abstract: 
http://www.dur.ac.uk/sleep.lab/riskis%20to%20infants---.htm
This is Mrs. balls view on safety of either sleeping place (skip or 
read the dummy-article): http://www.dur.ac.uk/sleep.lab/wailoo2.pdf
Basically she says 'we don't know what is the safest place to put 
your baby to sleep'.

What I find in most research on the subject of co-sleeping versus 
cotsleeping that I have read untill now is that safe cosleeping is 
compared to very unsafe co-sleeping. Any sleeping arrangement that is 
not in the cot is named co-sleeping. These arrangements probably 
should rather be compared to unsafe cotbedding in the pre- prevention 
campaigns era.


-- 
Heleen Hayes
www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes

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