Byard RW. Bedsharing

Discussion Mitchell21 recently reviewed the risks and benefits of bed sharing; he concluded that the postulated benefits and guidelines for bed sharing safely are not evidence based. He also found that there is only one small group with no increased risk of SIDS when bed sharing, namely breast-fed infants over 3 months whose parents do not smoke, and whose mother does not take 2 or more units of alcohol or drugs and does not cosleep on a sofa.