A four-year study funded by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), which is based at Bristol University, found that of the 80 unexpected deaths analysed, 54 per cent occurred when a parent was sleeping with a baby, often on a sofa.
However, around a quarter of the 506 mothers of children aged six-months to three-years-old surveyed for a separate FSID study were not persuaded that bed-sharing could increase the risk of cot death.
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