I have no "scientific" data, but I did work in a hospital in Southern Africa which had 1500 deliveries/month. The mothers and babies always slept together in a cot the size of an army cot. In the entire year that I was there (approximately 18,000 deliveries), not one baby fell out of bed. Of course, if we cut down the number of caesareans and episiotomies, we would have less use of analgesics, wouldn't we? Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC