1 The Mary Imogene Bassett, Hospital, Cooperstown, New York 13326
Is the role of infant feeding in SIDS really a dead issue, as Beckwith implies in his commentary on the article by Tonkin?1,2 Steele et al. found that 78% of SIDS infants had been exclusively bottle-fed, compared to 52% in a control group.3 Carpenter and Shaddick found that less than 6% of SIDS infants surviving to 3 months of age were exclusively breast-fed, compared to 22% of 3-month-old controls.4 Cameron and Asher found that 80% of their patients were receiving no breast milk at all by 1 month, compared to 39% of infants attending city clinics.3