Sentences with phrase «infants dying in their sleep»

Every year in the United States nearly 7,000 infants die in their sleep.

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According to Dr. Harvey Karp, author of The Happiest Baby on the Block, an estimated 70 % of infants who die in their sleep during the first year of life die in an adult bed.

Thousands of infants die in cribs every year, but they never say «don't let your baby sleep in a crib» — they say «here are the guidelines for safe crib sleeping.»

A significant number of infants die each year sleeping in bed with their parents.

Nearly three infants, toddlers and little ones die every day, most often in unsafe sleep environments.

She then proceeded to tell me about an infant patient who died when his mother rolled over in her sleep.

Ohio has one of the highest infant mortality rate in the country, and the number of babies dying from sleep - related causes has actually increased in recent years.

Another question sometimes skipped over is: was the infant sleeping prone, for example, or with other children, or with an inebriated adult or parent, or with a mother who smoked during her pregnancy all critical factors in why and infant may have lived or die.

Indeed, some find it acceptable to disregard, for example, a baby sleeping prone in the bedsharing environment as explanatory of the death but rather prefer to say the infant died simply because of bedsharing.

Three infants have died in the past three weeks in Milwaukee because they were sleeping in the same bed as adults, according to officials.

But every year 4,500 babies die suddenly and unexpectedly in their sleep from suffocation, strangulation, and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).

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.

In order to reduce the risk of any infant dying due to unsafe sleep, the ABCs of Safe Sleep should be practiced every time a baby slsleep, the ABCs of Safe Sleep should be practiced every time a baby slSleep should be practiced every time a baby sleeps.

Between 2001 and 2008, 183 infants died in Milwaukee due to sudden infant death syndrome or unsafe sleep practices, according to the Milwaukee Health Department.

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 abusivIn 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 abusivin 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 abusivin 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 first indication that infant care practices could promote or reduce infant deaths came in the 1990s when it was discovered that merely placing an infant in the prone rather than supine position tripled an infant's chances of dying.20 Insights from epidemiological studies from England and New Zealand led to national and international «back to sleep» campaigns in almost all western industrialized countries.

Brainstem abnormalities that involve the medullary serotonergic (5 - hydroxytryptamine [5 - HT]-RRB- system in up to 70 % of infants who die from SIDS are the most robust and specific neuropathologic findings associated with SIDS and have been confirmed in several independent data sets and laboratories.37, — , 40 This area of the brainstem plays a key role in coordinating many respiratory, arousal, and autonomic functions and, when dysfunctional, might prevent normal protective responses to stressors that commonly occur during sleep.

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

10 There is no animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species other than humans.2 While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12

Venneman and colleagues5 recently demonstrated that infants who are formula fed are twice as likely to die of SIDS than breastfed infants based on a case control study of 333 SIDS cases compared to 998 aged matched controls in Germany, from 1998 - 2001, consistent with previously published reports.35 While no studies show that co-sleeping in the form of bedsharing, specifically, is imperative for breastfeeding enhancement, many studies have shown that in order to get more sleep and to ease caring for their infants the decision to breastfeed often leads mothers to adopt routine bedsharing for at least part of the night36 - 40 even where they never intended to do so.41, 42 Indeed, nearly 50 % of breastfeeding mothers in the United States and Great Britain adopt bedsharing for some part of the night,38,43 - 45 and breastfeeding women are twice as likely to sleep with their babies in the first month relative to mothers electing to bottle - feed.39

Indeed, if a baby dies in what is defined as an «unsafe sleep environment,» such as all non-crib sleeping deaths, those babies are no longer regarded as SIDS deaths, when in fact, they could be.9 More problematic is the fact that the SUID diagnosis is being applied abundantly in cases where an infant is found dead sleeping next to a parent on the same surface, no matter what the social or physical circumstances.26

Less infants die from all other top ten causes of accidental injury death combined than from sleep - related accidental suffocation, sleep - deprived mothers driving with their babies in the car off the cliff included.

During the past five years alone (2013 — 2017), 10 babies died in sleep conditions that were not safe and not recommended for infants.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that almost 2,500 infants die in the US each year while sleeping or napping.

Thirty one infants in Onondaga County, enough to fill a kindergarten class, died over the last seven years after parents accidentally rolled over them in bed or put them in other unsafe sleep conditions, according to the Onondaga County Child Fatality Review Team.

«An average of one infant dies each week in New York City as a result of unsafe sleep practices.