sleeping babyWhen it comes to co-sleeping and the dangers
associated with it, many parents believe the benefits outweigh
the risks of SIDS, especially because they're doing it
the right way. They don't smoke, or drink alcohol, and or take
drugs, so their babies shouldn't be at a higher risk ... or so
they thought.  A new study, however, found that therisk of SIDS
increases five-fold when parents share a bed with an infant,
even if the parents don't smoke, drink alcohol, or take drugs
-- even if the baby was breastfed. According to MedPage Today,
the study found that 9 out of 10 SIDS births that involve co-
sleeping would not have occurred if the parents weren't sharing
a bed with their children. That's pretty sobering information.
In all, 22 percent of babies who died from SIDS were found to
have been sleeping with a parent or caregiver when they died. Of
course, smoking, drugs, and alcohol definitely increase the odds
of SIDS -- smoking ups the risk of SIDS for 2-week-olds 65-fold
when parents co-sleep, and