And given that bedsharing and breastfeeding are mutually supportive
activities (with women more likely to wean if they do not bedshare) one
could argue that discouraging breastfeeding women from bedsharing would
increase the risk of SIDS....I don't think that that's a long bow to draw.
Karleen Gribble
Australia


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nina Berry" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, March 23, 2007 8:52 PM
Subject: Drawing one's own conclusions


> "He devised a 'cumulative mortality model' for breastfeeding and
> bed-sharing that extrapolated from the ECAS data-set (i.e. were modelled
> mathematically, not actual odds ratios). The outcome was a prediction that
> the cumulative rate of SIDS among bed-sharing breastfeeders up to age 6
> months was 2 in 10,000 infants. In comparison the predicted cumulative
rate
> for non-bed- sharing breastfeeders was 1 in 10,000. For what he termed
> 'bottle-fed' infants the predicted cumulative rate was 4 in 10,000 for
> non-bed-sharers and 11 in 10,000 for bed-sharers. This is against a
backdrop
> of a general SIDS rate in the UK of 1 in 2000."
>
> I'll have a go ...  Artificial feeding quadruples the risk of SIDS in
> non-bed sharing infants.   In bed sharing infants, those who are not
> breastfed are more than 5 times more likely to die of SIDS.  Now there are
> some scary stats.
>
> Nina Berry BA/Bed(Hons) Dip Arts(Phil)
> Breastfeeding Counsellor
> PhD Candidate - "Got Milk? The influence of toddler formula advertising on
> infant feeding attitudes perceptions and beliefs"
>
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