I can see the masses nodding their heads, thinking of people like me and wondering how I could be so wilfully negligent. It's a wonder human populations have made it to the 21st Century, really, huh?
Someone should tell the Inuit, the vast populations of Asians who co-sleep, many Latin Americans, Indians...cos they are obviously at great risk, with no proper professionals to tell them that they are killing themselves off.
At least WE know that babies are actually at greater risk of SIDS by sleeping alone, because they don't have a parent's CO2 to trigger breathing in sleep, where that parent is not drug-affected (prescription or otherwise), does not have a condition like sleep apnoea or obesity as an issue. No, it's not popular to say this because it could offend Western cultures where it is so (nonsensically and counter-evolutionarily) important to keep our little ones separate from us.
I say good on this doctor for recommending co-sleeping! 'Poo' to the lady who ran to the media in a hysteria that someone could suggest bringing a child into the 'marital bed'. Ooooh, society in meltdown!
Better tend to Oscar, who after 12 months, is still miraculously alive and extraordinarily content...(despite also being 'still' breastfed, sling worn, attachment parented in general...)