I have read the study from St.Louis University on SUFFOCATION deaths of
infants in other than infant beds.

This is NOT a study on SIDS.  It is a study on suffocation.  It says nothing
at all about SIDS, or about co-sleeping.  It does illuminate the need for
clear information to all parents about the safety requirements for any place
a baby might sleep.  There is no information in the study about infant
feeding, nor even about whether the babies who died, were in bed with other
people, except in cases where overlying was thought to be the cause of the
SUFFOCATION death of the baby.

I am hoping Helen Ball will post to the list with her thoughts about the
weaknesses of this study.  It may take a few days.  Meanwhile, this is not a
study that tells us anything about the kind of bedsharing Jim McKenna
describes, or the kind that Helen studies.  It is a study about babies
getting suffocated during unsafe sleep practices: sharing beds with too many
people, sleeping alone in waterbeds, being caught between mattresses and
frames, between beds and walls, adult bodies and couch backs, getting
smothered in chairs - but NONE of these deaths were SIDS deaths and the
authors make that quite clear.

Rachel Myr
Kristiansand, Norway

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