Study Finds Children Killed in Adult Beds

Supporting recommendations that all infants sleep in cribs, a new study by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in Washington found that an average of 64 young children die each year while sleeping in bed with their parents or other adults. Children risk getting their heads trapped or being rolled on by an adult when sleeping in adult beds. The study, published in the October issue of the Baltimore-based Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, found that the greatest number of deaths involved children under 1 who became trapped between a mattress and a bed frame.