Milwaukee authorities are blaming the death of yet another baby on co-sleeping. In 10 weeks, five babies have died during the night while sleeping out of a crib.
Meekel
McCleave was just two months old when her mother, who had also co-slept
with her other children, woke up and found the small newborn face down.
Public health officials are once again decrying the practice of
co-sleeping, precisely because of outcomes like this.
The death
of these five babies is a complete tragedy -- sad, heartbreaking and
avoidable. But what gets me, an experienced co-sleeper, is that
co-sleeping is taking the blame and getting the headlines in these
deaths. But a closer look sheds a little more light.
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