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. 2022 Dec 13:10:1081028.
doi: 10.3389/fped.2022.1081028. eCollection 2022.

Bedsharing may partially explain the reduced risk of sleep-related death in breastfed infants

Melissa Bartick  1   2 , Michal Young  3 , Adetola Louis-Jacques  4 , James J McKenna  5   6 , Helen L Ball  7
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Bedsharing may partially explain the reduced risk of sleep-related death in breastfed infants

Melissa Bartick et al. Front Pediatr. .
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Keywords: breast feeding; infant; infant care; infant mortality; sudden infant death.

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JM serves as safety consultant for the Arms Reach cosleeper for which he is paid a small honorarium but no royalties. The remaining authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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