By Armen Hareyan on December 24, 2007 - 12:17pm 
for eMaxHealth
for eMaxHealthCo-Sleeping With Infants
The image of a parent and a baby dozing off together in the parent's bed isn't an uncommon one. It's a warm gesture and seems the natural thing to do, particularly on a cold winter's night. But is it safe?
It's called co-sleeping. And according to child welfare and public health officials, infant-related deaths due to co-sleeping - where an adult rolls over on the infant and accidentally suffocates them - are no longer viewed as tragic anomalies. Infants who sleep in the same bed as an adult are more likely to suffer injury, even death.
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#1 Sleeping with kids
My mother slept with me and my brothers. I slept with both of my children. I had a doctor tell me that majority of women that rolled over on there children and killed them were very much over weight and most likley suffered from sleep apnia (not quite sure how to spell the sleeping disorder). In the reports did they record the weight of the parents that rolled over on there children and didn't knotice?