[slashdev]

"if you let your baby sleep with you, you are a bad mother" that leads to a number of accidental suffocations. I think that’s pretty reasonable to educate the public about that.

[Tade0]

That's mostly an urban legend and the vast majority of such cases happen when the parent is not sober and essentially knocked out unconscious.

I mean, infants are typically warmer than adults and they wriggle around a lot - it's hard enough to sleep next to them, much less within suffocation distance.

[anotherhue]

Literally 18 hours ago on this very site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37796452

> they got into a weird position between a very very drowsy mum and some cushions and we didn't notice.

> parent is not sober and essentially knocked out unconscious.

Parent of newborn sleep deprivation is extreme.

[bathtub365]

If the combination of drinking and sleeping beside your infant leads to a higher chance of suffocating them you can ask people to stop drinking, stop sleeping beside their infant, or both. History has shown us that people won’t stop drinking so I think recommending the other potential solution makes sense.

[kozzz]

Drinking and obesity

[gardenhedge]

So we have advice from the government or your HN comment to go on. There needs to be more substance to your claims

[neurostimulant]

Asian countries have low SIDS despite infants commonly sleeping with their mothers.

[Tade0]

To quote our pediatrician: "do you believe in UFOs? That's roughly in the same ballpark in terms of connection with reality".

This part of the reply to my SO's question about this. Later he explained that it's mainly drunk/high people who suffocate their children like that.

You only need a sufficiently wide bed and separate covers for the parents - that's it.

[slashdev]

> mainly drunk/high people who suffocate their children like that.

That's a lot of people!

> You only need a sufficiently wide bed and separate covers for the parents

Why even take the risk.

[mstipetic]

Oh come on