Mothers and babies bedsharing

This week's Health Report on ABC Radio National, included an interview with Catherine Fetherston from Murdoch University, whose article in Breastfeeding Review late last year provoked some controversy.  In the interview (read the transcript or listen here), Fetherston questioned the current recommendations which caution against babies sleeping with their mothers as a risk for SIDS.  She states that this is not evidence-based as other risk factors have not been accounted for, such as smoking, alcohol consumption, sleeping in a chair or on a sofa.

Analysis of the ethical issues in the breastfeeding and bedsharing debate, Fetherston, C. & Leach J.
Breastfeed Rev. 2012 Nov;20(3):7-17.