Joshua Levy wrote:


Summary: of the seven studies found, six found co-sleeping to be more
dangerous than
cot sleeping, and one study found no added danger from co-sleeping.
No study found
co-sleeping safer than cat sleeping. Not one.

The Papers:

[BEAL00]
Sudden infant death syndrome in South Australia 1968-97. Part 3: is
bed sharing safe for infants?
Beal SM, Byard RW
J Paediatr Child Health 2000 Dec 36:552-4
http://reviews.bmn.com/medline/searc...9&refer=scirus
"bed sharing showed an increased risk of dying accidentally, when
compared with infants
sleeping in designated infant containers"


No evidence in the abstract that any analysis was done
regarding whether co-sleeping was done according to the
guidelines for safe co-sleeping.



[CARR01]
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Bedsharing, Parental Weight, and Age at
Death
Cindie Carroll-Pankhurst and Edward A. Mortimer Jr
PEDIATRICS Vol. 107 No. 3 March 2001, pp. 530-536
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or...ode=pediatrics
"By demonstrating that among an urban population at high risk for


Again, no evidence that there was any analysis
considering whether deaths occured when safe co-sleeping
guidelines were followed or not.



[GESS01]
Association between sudden infant death syndrome and prone sleep
position, bed sharing,
and sleeping outside an infant crib in Alaska.
Gessner BD, Ives GC, Perham-Hester KA.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
"Almost all SIDS deaths in Alaska occurred in association with
prone sleeping,
bed sharing, or sleeping outside a crib."


But you neglected this part of the abstract:
"Of 40 infants who slept with a parent at the time of death, only
1 infant who slept supine with a non-drug-using parent on an adult
nonwater mattress was identified."

Therefore, one can surmise that every other infant who died
of SIDS while sleeping with a parent were not supine, were
sleeping with a drug-using parent, or were on a waterbed--
all clearly prohibited by safe co-sleeping guidelines.



[IYAS03]
Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome among northern plains
Indians.
Iyasu S, Randall LL, Welty TK, Hsia J, Kinney HC, Mandell F, McClain
M, Randall B, Habbe D, Wilson H, Willinger M.
JAMA. 2002 Dec 4;288(21):2717-23.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...&dopt=Abstract
Found that infants who died were more likely to co-sleep (59.4%
vs. 55.4%), but this
relation was not statistically significant.


...so nothing to take to the bank here...



[SCHE03]
Where Should Infants Sleep? A Comparison of Risk for Suffocation of
Infants Sleeping in Cribs,
Adult Beds, and Other Sleeping Locations
N. J. Scheers, PhD, George W. Rutherford, MS and James S. Kemp, MD
PEDIATRICS Vol. 112 No. 4 October 2003, pp. 883-889
http://pediatrics.aappublications.or...ode=pediatrics


...again, no information on analysis taking safe
co-sleeping guidelines into account.



[THOG00]
Sleep position and bed-sharing in sudden infant deaths: An examination
of autopsy findings
Jon R. Thogmartin MD, Charles F. Siebert, Jr MD and William A. Pellan
AS
From Palm Beach County Medical Examiner Office, West Palm Beach,
Florida.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...f85336bdc6f88d
The Journal of Pediatrics Volume 138, Issue 2 , February 2001, Pages
212-217


...still no analysis taking safe co-sleeping guidelines
into account.

So, I have yet to see any evidence that co-sleeping
while following safe co-sleeping guidelines is a problem.
Got any evidence there?

Best wishes,
Ericka