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Should Your Baby Share Your Bed?

"It's an emotive and divisive debate. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that letting an infant child sleep in her parents' bed "remains [the] greatest risk factor for sleep-related infant deaths.
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"It's an emotive and divisive debate. The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) says that letting an infant child sleep in her parents' bed "remains [the] greatest risk factor for sleep-related infant deaths."

But some health experts accuse the AAP of ignoring growing evidence which, they argue, shows that bed-sharing—if done safely—is good for the baby's health.  In an attempt to settle the question, a group of researchers recently reviewed all of the more than 650 studies on the subject conducted between 1973 and 2015."   To read more, click here.




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