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@alangeh Actually, there are a number of issues with death miscodings! There are anecdotal reports that it's to spare parents feelings, but I don't know that the specific motivation has ever been studied. This paper in Pediatrics conducted a survey of medical examiners with different scenarios...

@stiller Not quite - the CDC considers SIDS a subcategory of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death, which is inclusive of accidental suffocation/strangulation, SIDS (a diagnosis of exclusion, i.e., we can't prove it was anything else so it's SIDS) and unexplained death (I find the 'unexplained'...

@alangeh I totally agree that everyone needs to make their own decision based on their own understanding of the risks involved,. However, for clarity, that guideline from ACOG you cite is out of date. It references the AAP's stance in 2006, but they have come out with multiple new evidence...

@ibilly Yes! It's important to assess relative risk and I do think people deserve the information to do so. The risk of SIDS while ABC sleeping is very low—so an increase in risk is still (thankfully!) a very small number of kids! However, note that your risk percentage above only looks at...

@ibilly That is incorrect - Carpenter did show increase in absence of alcohol use, drug use and preterm birth. It found that for babies less than 3 months old, who are exclusively breastfed, have nonsmoking parents, and whose mothers had not had any alcohol or drugs in 24 hours, the increased...

@gell SIDS is only one part of SUID (but people talking about SIDS generally don't mean 'I'm worried about my child's death being an R95-coded death', they mean 'I'm worried about my child dying in their sleep.') Even so, if you only review SIDS deaths (only about 1/3 of SUIDs overall)...

@juliaraine I am also disappointed to see how much of this thread is opinions represented as fact. This is an area where there has been a LOT of study and assessment. As someone who comes down on the side of anti-bedsharing after revieweing the research, I support us having a rational...

@cherish616 Just a correction on the above - the AAP actually recently updated their guidance on roomsharing. It used to be twelve months and now the guidance is "about six to twelve months." The AAP actually doesn't cite any recent studies that find a benefit after ~6 months. Before six...

@xuanang01 Hi OP - I personally would not bedshare in this situation. If you don't want to sleep train, I would take shifts with a partner. I have a lot of empathy for what sounds like a very dangerous and very cool career - but here to say that bedsharing is also risky, even if you follow...