I don’t have a lot of time to comment on this right now but I wanted to make a quick statement. When you look at the abstract for the study that is generating all this negative hoopla, 2 of the doctors in the study work for the consumer product safety commission (CPSC). The CPSC gets a lot of their funding from surprise, crib companies. Kevin worked out the statistics and I will post later but the actual statistical number of babies that would die from co-sleeping (and how many of these are situations where parents practised unsafe co-sleeping?), it was practically minute. Fortunately, so far it looks like the Canadian Pediatric Society will not speak out against co-sleeping but rather encourage safe co-sleeping. As usual the media has jumped on the band wagon with scare tactics and instead of teaching safe co-sleeping practices, has encouraged it not at all. I’m sure Mothering Magazine and Dr. James McKenna, a world authority on sleep research and proponent of co-sleeping will have responses to the media.