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AAP Grand Rounds 8:46-47 (2002)
© 2002 American Academy of Pediatrics

DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL PEDIATRICS

Bedsharing/Cosleeping: The Data Neither Condemns Nor Endorses

Source: Okami P, Weisner T, Olmstead R. Outcome correlates of parent-child bedsharing: an eighteen-year longitudinal study. J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2002;23:244–253.[Medline]

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Parent-infant bedsharing has been the subject of much controversy and discussion for both parents and professionals. Adherents have claimed a number of long-term benefits to the child, both psychological and physical. However, experts, including the American Academy Academy of Pediatrics, caution against "routine" bedsharing because of concerns about physical dangers (overlying) and psychosexual problems.1 In the US, routine bedsharing is relatively rare among middle-class, Caucasian families;2 it is more common among African-American, Latin American, and white Appalachian families, as well as in Asian societies.3–5

A recent 18-year longitudinal study examined the outcome correlates of parent-child bedsharing Americans. Researchers at UCLA followed 205 families in California with nonconventional and conventional family lifestyles since 1975. One hundred fifty-four "nonconventional" . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Ronald L. Lindsay, MD, FAAP
Pediatrics, Nisonger Center UCEDD, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH