Bed sharing with unimpaired parents is not an important risk for sudden infant death syndrome.

摘要

The Alaska Division of Public Health and the Alaska Chapter of the AAP continue to recommend that (1) parents always put their infants to sleep on their back unless told otherwise by a medical provider, (2) infants never sleep on a water bed or couch, and (3) infants sleep in an infant crib or with a nonsmoking, unimpaired caregiver on a standard adult non-water mattress. Among parents who do not use tobacco, alcohol/or other drugs, sleeping with their infant is a perfectly reasonable and potentially beneficial option. We call on the AAP to revise their recommendations to reflect the scientifically defensible position that bed sharing is only a risk if the parent is impaired or the sleeping surface is inappropriate.