Along with following
the safe sleep guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics, which includes advice such as always laying your baby to sleep on her back in her own crib or playpen, making sure there is nothing in the crib, including loose sheets or blankets, and room sharing with caregivers, if possible, for the first six months of life, you may be wondering if there is anything else you can do to protect your baby while he or she sleeps.
Not exact matches
This can be done by
sleeping with them (following
safe bedsharing / co-
sleeping guidelines) and then moving YOURSELF away
from your baby.
After the AAP first published
guidelines on
safe infant
sleep habits in 1992, the SIDS rate dropped over 50 percent
from 1.2 deaths per 1,000 live births that year to 0.57 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2001, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
I would like to direct you to this list of
guidelines and tips for
safe co -
sleeping / bed - sharing
from Dr. Sears, and remind you that most of bed - sharing is half new - motherly instinct and half plain old regular common sense.
Co-
sleeping benefits are immense, greatly enhancing a baby's emotional and physical well - being and when
safe co-
sleeping guidelines are adhered to, SIDS rates for co-
sleeping babies are far lower than for babies
sleeping alone in cots, separated
from mummy.
Safe baby
sleep guidelines from the AAP also cover some best practices for feeding and soothing your baby at night.
Preterm infants are at increased risk of SIDS, 12,13 and the association between prone
sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.14 Preterm infants and other infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for
sleep as soon as the infant is medically stable and significantly before the infant's anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age.15 NICU personnel should endorse
safe -
sleeping guidelines with parents of infants
from the time of admission to the NICU.
Did I mention that such bedsharing - friendly
guidelines in that province
from 2011 were the product of BC Perinatal Services ignoring both the Canada PHA
safe sleep recommendation against bedsharing and BC Coroner Services five year
safe sleep CDR report
from 2009 in which the mythical *
safe * bedsharing of dr McKenna was named, shamed, and discarded as rubbish in light of evidence?