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PEDIATRICS Vol. 100 No. 2 August 1997, pp. 272-272

AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PEDIATRICS:
Does Bed Sharing Affect the Risk of SIDS?

Task Force on Infant Positioning and SIDS

The American Academy of Pediatrics endorses and accepts as its policy the position on bed sharing as articulated below by a panel of experts convened by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD).* The Panel attended a conference sponsored by the NICHD entitled "Infant Sleep Environment and SIDS Risk" in Bethesda, MD, on January 9-10, 1997. After hearing presentations from a variety of experts from the United States and several other countries, the Panel prepared the following statement regarding the relationship of bed sharing and SIDS.




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