# Is a mother sleeping in the same bed as their baby as dangerous as these graphic PSAs make it seem?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 16, 2011, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-mother-sleeping-in-the-same-bed-as-their-baby-as-dangerous-as-these-graphic-psas-make-it-seem/603169 "2011-11-16T21:35:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-mother-sleeping-in-the-same-bed-as-their-baby-as-dangerous-as-these-graphic-psas-make-it-seem/603169/61 "2011-11-20T06:22:17Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> If this was true, there wouldn’t be an episode of “Dead Men Talking” that featured Dr. Michael Baden explaining that one woman’s loss of four children over a period of a few years to “SIDS” was actually a result of her rolling over on them and smothering each of them while sleeping.

Why did it take them so long to figure it out? Didn’t they do an autopsy after the first one? Or did they just assume it was SIDS and not bother?

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-a-mother-sleeping-in-the-same-bed-as-their-baby-as-dangerous-as-these-graphic-psas-make-it-seem/603169/62 "2011-11-20T06:27:19Z")

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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Why did it take them so long to figure it out? Didn’t they do an autopsy after the first one? Or did they just assume it was SIDS and not bother?

The latter.

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