I would be very interested in reading the book. As a first time mum it is so confusing. Vaccinate or not, co-sleep or not, bassinett or cot, sids prevention etc etc.

I have personally been touched by a sids tradgedy.... my god son passed away in only july last year - he was 10 months old. He was a premmie baby and his mum smoked, he was also formula fed - which apparently increases the chances....he was a healthy happy baby though with no health problems & was slightly out of the 'huge risk' age bracket. He slept in his own cot this particular night, with no bumper and a small amount of blankets. he is able to crawl around and move and was not under any blankets when he was found (didn't suffocate)

Obviously I am so nervous about what i should or shouldn't do - because I don't ever want to go through what his parents have. So i have bought one of those heartbeat sensors and read all about what to do to prevent sids....

Then my doula gave me a book about extremes in raising children, (sorry i can't remember the title now, but i think it was 10 ways of raising kids or something like that)..... and sids was mentioned as was co-sleeping. It said about how in the western world we are so set on giving a baby it's own space, its own room away from human contact like we want nothing to do with it. And we wonder why it cries? All babies want is human touch and stimulation....

In predominately 3rd world countries, they have a significant amount of hours of less crying and fussing by their babies, they co-sleep, breastfeed to comfort the baby when it slightly stirrs (not to a schedule) and they have no cases of sids....
This got me thinking and seriously wondering about co-sleeping. I have bassinett set up next to my bed because i think i will predominately use that - only for fear of being winter and having lots of blankets and pillows in our bed and not wanting to suffocate the baby.

So it's somewhere between a rock and hard place for me atm. I do think that some of the 'statistics' need re-evaluating to determine the real 'no cause' sids and those of 'suffocation' and 'accidents' (ie. parents falling asleep on couch with baby and baby falling down side or something) because it seems that each variable is affecting the number of cases of sids each year. Then it would be very interesting to see what the numbers said.