This is only one mothers experience, but my understanding was that the biggest danger (other than smoking parents) with co-sleeping was if there were too many pillows on the bed in which the baby could accidentally suffocate or if the parents used a synthetic doona which does not allow the baby to breath if they are caught under it as easily as a natural fibre or feather one does.
I co-slept with both my boys particularly when they were very small as I found that I got more sleep and was better able to care for them if I had them rooming in with me until they stopped most of their nighttime breastfeeds. When they wanted a feed I would take them out of the crib and feed them in bed usually with them propped in my arm on my side and if we fell asleep then so be it. Both of them were fine and if they made funny noises or anything I found I automatically woke up.
In the hospitals where they were born the midwives and doctors had no problem with this practice either, they just used to make sure the sides of the bed was up so there was no chance of mum or bub falling out.
Debby
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