if neither parent smokes or drinks a lot, and if the baby is breastfed? The data here says yes. The risk of death for infants who do not bed share in the lowest risk group is 0.08 SIDS deaths per 1,000 births. For those who bed share, it is 0.22 deaths per 1,000 births. Again, we want to put these risks into a broader context. In the US, the overall infant mortality rate is around 5 deaths per 1,000 births. This therefore represents a very small increase relative to the overall mortality rate. A perhaps more useful way to say this is that among families with no other risk factors, roughly
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