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July 21, 2008
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Christine Ateah is an associate professor in the faculty of nursing at the University of Manitoba. Her primary area of research is parenting and child health.

Many new parents, especially if breastfeeding, describe the convenience of bringing baby to bed and the good feeling of knowing baby is close by.

However, a 1999 report in the U.S. by Nakamura, Wind and Danello, in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine, helped spark the controversy over bed sharing. The study reviewed 515 infant deaths in an eight-year period that happened in adult beds and concluded that cribs were the safest place for infants.

The risks for babies sleeping in their parents' beds include asphyxiation due ...

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