API advocates for practices that are dedicated to the physical and emotional safety of infants as well as long term health of all children; that empower parents to be
educated on infant sleep, arousal, and breathing; and for decisions that are based in accurate data and compatible with biological needs.
Not exact matches
We have maintained a long - time partnership with First Candle, the leading national non-profit organization that is dedicated to the education, advocacy and research of Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), to
educate parents and caregivers
on the importance of safe
sleep practices for
infants.
As a leading national nonprofit dedicated to the survival of babies throughout the first years of life, C.J. First Candle is partnering with The Boppy Company to
educate parents
on the importance of safe
sleeping practices for
infants.
And the assumption by pediatric
sleep researchers that there is one ideal
sleeping arrangement for all, or that cosleeping is harmful and detrimental or that
infants need to «consolidate their
sleep as soon in life as is possible» is not only fallacious but harmful and it explains why western parents are the most exhausted, disappointed least satisfied, (yet, most
educated and well read), I am convinced, than any other parents
on the planet, as regards their
infant's
sleep.
Since you are a very well -
educated mother, I wonder if you were ever exposed to some of the scholarly work
on infant sleep that says that night wakings are healthy, normal and to be expected, and that babies are «designed» to
sleep next to their mother and nurse through the night before becoming a mother and / or before deciding to
sleep train?
Having served as a consultant both for the American Academy of Pediatrics subcommittee
on breastfeeding, and as an ad hoc consultant for the
Infant Sleep Position and SIDS AAP committee in 2004 - 2005 which was studying the bedsharing issue and eventually recommended against bedsharing altogether, I was at one point very hopeful if not confident that a compromise would be forthcoming i.e. that the AAP sub-committee would support and
educate breastfeeding mothers who chose to bedshare.
Community education efforts should focus strongly
on increasing exclusive breastfeeding for the first 6 months of life, decreasing parental smoking and smoking during pregnancy and
educating parents, non-parental caregivers and hospital staff about the dangers of non-supine
sleep positions for
infants.
Today, fathers spend three times as much time caring for their children as they did 50 years ago, so they also need to
educate themselves
on infant safety, including Safe
Sleep practices.
Today, fathers spend three times as much time caring for their children as they did 50 years ago, so they also need to
educate themselves
on infant safety, including Safe
Sleep
Finally, both parents and service providers should be
educated on infant and child
sleep behaviours in order to become familiar with
sleeping habits and effective
sleep management strategies and to be conscious of the potentially serious consequences of poor or insufficient
sleep.
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Educating parents
on healthy
infant sleep habits may help prevent obesity
Professionals
educate and facilitate group discussions
on maternal and
infant health topics including breastfeeding, child development, family planning, goal setting, labor & delivery, positive parenting, safe
sleep, and more.