A small proportion
of our co sleeping deaths are horrible accidents that in retrospect could maybe have been
prevented (in this group I include babies who fall down the gap between the
bed and the wall and get wedged and become asphyxiated, or a baby who
rolled out of bed and landed head first into a waste paper basket that had been lined with a plastic bag, or a baby who had been put up on the pillows but had slipped down the gap between the two pillows at the top
of the
bed and the pillows then moved over her face due to the parents shifting position.