The American Academy of Pediatrics has specific guidelines
on infant sleep safety and SIDS risk reduction.
Not exact matches
For information
on API
infant sleep safety guidelines, including a free brochure for download, please visit http://www.attachmentparenting.org/infantsleepsafety.
Full - color glossy brochure about
infant sleep safety and cosleeping based on API's Principle of Ensure Safe Sleep, Physically and Emotion
sleep safety and cosleeping based
on API's Principle of Ensure Safe
Sleep, Physically and Emotion
Sleep, Physically and Emotionally.
As
infants sleep over 16 hours per day a crib mattress should be carefully chosen as it would be the most single item with the highest impact
on the quality and
safety of your...
Place your
infant on a firm
sleep surface that meets current
safety standards.
Baby
Sleeping Safety Baby should be put down for
sleep on their back to reduce the risk of Sudden
Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS).
You should allocate as much time as possible to researching
on the best
sleep surface for your
infant long before you give birth because it is one of the main things that determine their
safety.
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
April 2009 Nancy Cowles, executive director of Kids In Danger joined other consumer advocates,
safety experts, manufacturers and government regulators
on April 22 at CPSC's Staff Roundtable
on Cribs and Other
Infant Sleep Environments.
Co-sleeping with
infants is possible, but parents who are
on medications or who
sleep very heavily should avoid bed sharing for the
safety of their baby.
As her parents, we had
safety at the forefront of our minds when we purchased a Summer
Infant video monitor to keep an eye
on her while she
slept.
In addition to always placing your baby to
sleep on his or her back to prevent sudden
infant death syndrome (SIDS), here are some other important ways to ensure the
safety of your littlest sleeper:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: Study Confirms
Safety of Placing
Infants to
Sleep on Their Backs
Back to
Sleep is a national baby sleep safety campaign in the U.S. designed to encourage parents to put their infants on their backs to s
Sleep is a national baby
sleep safety campaign in the U.S. designed to encourage parents to put their infants on their backs to s
sleep safety campaign in the U.S. designed to encourage parents to put their
infants on their backs to
sleepsleep.
Bed - sharing
on the post-natal ward: breastfeeding and
infant sleep safety.
The latter includes homicides, as well as intentional suffocation, estimated at about 5 % of SUID deaths, but also suspected or definite accidental suffocations, because of an overlay by another person, or an asphyxial wedging or strangulation, especially where the
infant is not found dead in a crib but having been
on a structure not specifically designed with
infant sleep safety in mind (recliners, waterbeds, couches, sofas and / or adult beds).9
A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for
infant safety exposes the
infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160
Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk
sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or
sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165
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.