I would agree that solitary sleep does "abolish the chance of us rolling over on our babies." However, it greatly increases the chance of apnea episodes that can lead to SIDS. There were 121 deaths in an adult beds due to overlying between 1980 and 1997 but in 1997 alone 2,700 SIDS deaths occurred in cribs, alone, on their backs. (Heinig, M. J. (2000). "Bed sharing and infant mortality: Guilt by association?" Journal of Human Lactation, 16, 189-191.)

I'm so sorry your friend lost her child. That is just horrible! I would like to reduce those types of deaths by educating people about SAFE cosleeping. If the AAP gave your friend information on safe colseeping she would have known that formula feeding is contraindicated which may have saved her son. The AAP's silence saves no one while children die from SIDS.

Please explain how our children are in further danger. Putting them to bed in their own bed abolishes the chance of us rolling over on our child. When we are sleeping, we have ZERO control of our bodies. We are unconscious and have no idea what the heck we are doing. Sometimes we don't wake up, sometimes we do. Why take the chance of suffocating our children?? This doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever. The child is safer in his own bed, on his back, and without blankets, pillows, and toys. My friend's 11 day old son died from this. Guess what? He was bottle fed. Imagine that. The irony. She wasn't drinking, she was in bed, she had her 3 year old on the other side of her infant BUT….she was the one who rolled OFF of the child and realized she suffocated her son. I had to see a dead 11 day old baby. Like I said up there, NO ONE knows what the heck they are doing while they are sleeping so by sleeping with an infant, they are taking the risk of taking their child's life.