– How does co sleeping cause SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome)?
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Cosleeping doesn’t cause SIDS.
Cosleeping increases the risk of suffocation death, but specifically with other risk factors.
In fact, cosleeping (at least while breastfeeding) is associated with reduced risk of SIDS.
the confusion is, I suspect, that no one wants to tell a grieving family that they caused a baby’s death. And it’s easier to eat them believe it was SIDS, than point out that one of them took cold medicine, or had a few beers, or had just gotten off a 20 hour shift, or hadn’t actually gotten around to quitting smoking… …
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Here’s a not very ELI5 article, if you want some science…
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9792691/
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