After months of breastfeeding around the clock and diligently trying to put her infant son to sleep in his bassinet, Toronto mom Kate Galt was bone-tired. Nothing was working anymore. When Elliot outgrew the bassinet at three months old, Galt tried to train him to sleep in his own crib, but he always seemed to wind up in bed with her at some point in the night. It’s where he seemed happiest and most settled.
The truth is that Galt liked sleeping next to Elliot, too. ?When I sleep with him at night, it makes me feel closer to him,? she says. As a child, she shared a bed with her sister, and snuggling up next to her loved ones at night feels natural to her. ?I?ve always slept with people,? she says. ?It feels sad to put a baby in bed by themselves. Like, I don?t want to sleep alone either!?  But North American experts and doctors adamantly recommend against co-sleeping with a baby. Both the Canadian Paediatric Society (CPS) and the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) have long advised new parents not to bed-share, warning that it’s dangerous and poses suffocation risks, along with a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).
But when parents are desperate for just a few hours of sleep, bed-sharing does happen. Anyone who has brought their infant into their bed for a 3 a.m. feed knows how easy it is to doze off while nursing, with the baby in your arms, whether you mean to or not.  
A recently-updated joint statement on safe infant sleep, put out by ...