When I was writing this book, I talked to my friend Sophie, who co-slept with her youngest child for many months. Sophie is a highly trained doctor, and clearly not ignorant of the risks of co-sleeping. She told me she didn’t make this decision lightly, and she didn’t disagree with the AAP’s guidelines. But co-sleeping was the only way her baby would sleep, so she took all the steps that have been shown to minimize the associated risks: she and her partner didn’t smoke or drink, and they took all the covers and blankets off of the bed. Even with these precautions, she accepted the possibility
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