Swings and soft «positioners» aren't safe sleep surfaces, despite the cute marketing pictures.
Not exact matches
Newton Crib Mattress is
not only the cleanest and most comfortable but also the
safest sleeping surface for your baby.
«The logical decision is to breast feed and have the baby
sleep in the same room with the parent - but on a
safe sleep surface and
NOT in the same bed,» Weese - Mayer, also a professor of pediatrics at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, added in an email.
Placing the DockATot in a crib, bassinet or other
sleep surface is against the manufacturer's warnings and is
not safe.
Because the baby can
not lie flat on a firm
surface, the APA does
not recommend any sitting devices, such as car seats and swings, as a
safe sleeping condition for infants.
According to the Mother - Baby
Sleep Laboratory at the University of Notre Dame, you can create a
safe co-
sleeping environment by adhering to guidelines such as putting the baby along side the adult bed on a separate
surface and
not taking any medication that makes you unresponsive while
sleeping.
And I decided right then and there that it was far
safer for my baby to be next to me in bed breastfeeding, on a
safe sleeping surface, than for me to be nursing in a chair and taking the chance that I may or may
not wake up in time.
That is why Dr. Ball and myself agree that bottle fed infants are
safer if they
sleep alongside their mothers on a different
surface but
not in the same bed.
Aside from never letting an infant
sleep outside the presence of a committed adult, i.e. separate -
surface cosleeping which is
safe for all infants, I do
not recommend to any parents any particular type of
sleeping arrangement since I do
not know the circumstances within which particular parents live.
It is
not safe to have a very small, fragile, premature baby
sleeping next to a parent in a western bed, but very important to have them
sleeping alongside the bed on a different
surface.
The Academy of Pediatrics, adapted their «
safe sleep guidelines» including recommending that a baby should «Share a bedroom with parents, but
not the same
sleeping surface, preferably until the baby turns 1 but at least for the first six months.»
In addition, bottle fed infants should
not sleep in bed with the parents, although a separate
surface beside the bed is probably
safe, as explained by the University of Notre Dame.
This way you can be sure of a snug fit (you should do a fit test there in the store, even if you have to request a manager's assistance) so that baby will
not become trapped between a mattress that's too small and the crib.Now that you've chosen a great,
safe crib, how can you ensure that your baby's mattress is the
safest sleep surface possible?
«It's completely washable, so your baby will always
sleep on the cleanest, most hygienic
surface possible... Why
not opt for a mattress that's made with healthier materials — one that is comfortable (and it is — I've sampled the material), but also appropriately firm, and, most importantly,
safer.»
If such» it looks
safe enough from where I'm standing» standard is
not something that parents are applying when picking infant car seats, why is picking a
sleep surface, the basic and primary safety issue and contributing factor in so many
sleep - related infant deaths, suddenly something that is negotiable and
not so important at all?
(Do
not place pillows in the crib with babies; make sure that the
sleep surface is still
safe and free of loose objects.)
There are pros and cons to everything, and part of the cons of telling exhausted breastfeeding mothers to never co-bed is the number of deaths that have increased due to
sleeping together on the couch, in a recliner, or other soft
surfaces, all of which are
not safe sleep environments.
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.
NEW YORK — First Lady Chirlane McCray and Queens Borough President Melinda Katz were joined today at NYC Health + Hospitals / Queens by Health Commissioner Dr. Mary T. Bassett and ACS Commissioner David A. Hansell to announce the donation of 1,000 new Pack «
N Play portable cribs, or «Katz's Cradles,» to provide more Queens families with a
safe sleep surface for their infants.
The free Pack «
N Play portable cribs provide a
safe sleep surface and can be used until a child weighs 30 pounds which is the average age of a one year old.
It is
not safe or sanitary for a dog to
sleep on a wet, urine filled
surface, nor is it probable that you will wake up in the middle of the night to clean the dogs» bed.