FROM: Sturgess, Frances Coulter
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SUBJECT: waterbeds
DATE: 02-20-97   15:53 EST
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The Childhood Injury Prevention folks around here are adamant that no pillows
or waterbeds or even fat comforters be used for sleeping infants as they have
suffocated on them when too young to turn over (or back over) themselves and
shape themselves to an infants face/body.  Granted not all infants have or
will suffocate, but it is a significant risk.  Our waterbed sort of swallowed
things between the rail and the mattress so we got rid of it when we brought
baby home.

This is along the same lines as how wide the crib slats are, are there knobs
that would catch/strangle a child with its clothes etc... May be less of an
issue with cosleeping than with solo cribs just because Mom is *there*.