Babies sleeping with parents and sudden infant death syndrome

doi:10.1136/bmj.321.7267.1019

BMJ 2000;321:1019 ( 21 October )

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Babies sleeping with parents and sudden infant death syndrome

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Invoking sudden infant death syndrome in cosleeping may be misleading

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EDITOR $---$ Blair et al investigated the factors influencing the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome.¹ In an increasingnumber of infant deaths that we have investigated over recentyears we have found several recurring themes: infant under 3 months;shared sleeping arrangements, particularly sharing a sofa; youngcarer; consumption of alcohol the night before the infant wasfound dead. Typically, the infant is found between the adult andthe back of the sofa, often covered by a duvet. Sharing a sofaseems to be particularly common in single parent households withpoor socioeconomic support, in which the mother sleeps on thesofa, often with more than one child, simply because it is thewarmest place in the house. Some of the risk factors highlightedby Blair et al have long been recognised in law in the Childrenand Young Persons Act1933.

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Babies sleeping with parents: case-control study of factors influencing the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome • Commentary: Cot death $---$ the story so far: Peter S Blair, Peter J Fleming, Iain J Smith, Martin Ward Platt, Jeanine Young, Pam Nadin, P J Berry, Jean Golding, the CESDI SUDI research group, and Ed Mitchell
BMJ 1999 319: 1457-1462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]