Co-sleeping with infants can be risky, experts say

(..)Instead, he shares the same bed as his mother because she believes it makes it easier to breastfeed.

"I don't have to get out of bed during the night, and he doesn't cry during the night because all he has to do is fuss a little bit and I'm right there able to feed him," said Felker, 41. "He doesn't have to wait for me to come across the house."

Felker is a member of La Leche League International, a support organization for breastfeeding. Many of its members believe that having their babies sleep in the same bed as they do not only makes it easier for them to nurse but strengthens the bond between them.

But Delaware's Child Death, Near Death and Stillbirth Commission, which..

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