And parents should always aim to
follow safe infant sleep practices, because the truly devastating reality, in addition to the fact that we sometimes can't keep our eyes open, is that 3,500 infants die annually from sleep - related death.
Not exact matches
Parents should
follow the
safe sleep guidelines that
infants should be placed on their backs to go to
sleep, never on their sides or stomachs — whether they're swaddled or not.
Becky provides support using various
sleep training philosophies and methods and
follows the American Academy of Pediatrics» recommendations for
infant and child
safe sleep practices.
Bassinets and pack and plays are both
safe sleeping environments for your
infant, as long as they meet the
following Consumer Product Safety Commission guidelines:
Before leaving your
infant with any caregiver, be sure they agree that the
safe sleep practices you discuss with them will be
followed.
Unfortunately, parents using a family bed do not always
follow safe bed - sharing practices, such as removing pillows, sheets, and other objects that create an unsafe
sleep environment for
infants, according to What To Expect's website.
When
safe co-
sleeping guidelines are
followed, SIDS rates for co-
sleeping infants are actually lower than for crib -
sleeping infants.
Subsequently, by virtue of defining that an adult and
infant are unable to safely
sleep on the same surface together, such as what occurs during bedsharing, even when all known adverse bedsharing risk factors are absent and
safe bedsharing practices involving breastfeeding mothers are
followed, an
infant that dies while sharing a
sleeping surface with his / her mother is labeled a SUID, and not SIDS.26 In this way the
infant death statistics increasingly supplement the idea that bedsharing is inherently and always hazardous and lend credence, artificially, to the belief that under no circumstance can a mother, breastfeeding or not, safely care for, or protect her
infant if asleep together in a bed.27 The legitimacy of such a sweeping inference is highly problematic, we argue, in light of the fact that when careful and complete examination of death scenes, the results revealed that 99 % of bedsharing deaths could be explained by the presence of at least one and usually multiple independent risk factors for SIDS such as maternal smoking, prone
infant sleep, use of alcohol and / or drugs by the bedsharing adults.28 Moreover, this new ideology is especially troubling because it leads to condemnations of bedsharing parents that border on charges of being neglectful and / or abusive.
The program is open to
infants and caregivers in Niagara County who meet eligibility criteria related to need and who agree to participate in
safe sleep education and
follow up.