Pediatric politics: How dire warnings against infant bed sharing ‘backfired’
Every new parent has heard the dire warning: Never sleep with your baby....
The problem with this widespread advice is that the AAP’s statement from which it comes is based on just four papers. Two of the studies are misrepresented, and actually show little or no risk of sharing a bed when parents do not smoke, and two of the studies do not collect data on maternal alcohol use, a known and powerful risk factor.
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