The
absolute risk of infant death at birth or within 28 days after delivery was 12.6 per 10,000 midwife - assisted home births compared to 3.2 per 10,000 hospital births assisted by midwives, according to findings presented at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine meeting.
Sleeping on couches and armchairs places infants at extraordinarily
high risk of infant death, including SIDS, 4,6,7,42,43 suffocation through entrapment or wedging between seat cushions, or overlay if another person is also sharing this surface.44 Therefore, parents and other caregivers should be especially vigilant as to their wakefulness when feeding infants or lying with infants on these surfaces.
«While most pregnant women who choose to have planned home births are at lower risk of complications due to careful screening, planned home births are associated with double to triple
the risk of infant death than are planned hospital births.
There was no association between pregnant mothers who received the influenza or tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis (Tdap) vaccines and
the risk of infant death or hospitalization, researchers found.
In this way there is reduced
the risk of the infant death syndrome called cot death or SIDS that can happen because of the accidental suffocation when parents put a baby to sleep with them in the same bed.
In this way there is reduced
the risk of the infant death syndrome called cot death or SIDS that can happen because of the accidental suffocation when parents...
For a third point, why don't you actually lay - out
the risks of infant death that the data shows result from bed - sharing... rather than exhort folk to do so because it is «natural»?
No matter how carefully screened, planned, and prepared you are, anything can go wrong during childbirth; and while
the risk of infant death has dropped dramatically over the years, it is still double the risk to give birth at home rather than at a hospital.
Artificial feeding can triple
the risk of infant death.
This increases
the risk of infant death from suffocation or entrapment.
A sofa is not a safe sleeping place for a baby with or without a parent present as it increases
the risk of infant death.
Beginning in June 2011, all cribs have been required to meet new safety standards established by the federal government to reduce
the risk of infant death.
In contrast, co-sleeping — another practice vigorously supported by Brown — is killing many more each year because, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics, it nearly triples
the risk of infant death from SIDS.
In all the weight classes except the most obese, gaining less than or much more than recommended increased
the risk of infant death.
However, even when obese women gained the optimal weight during pregnancy,
their risk of infant death was still about twice as great as that of women who began pregnancy at a normal weight.
«Although the precise cause of SIDS is still unknown, we do know that safe sleep practices, such as sleeping on the back, reduces
the risk of infant death in the first year of life,» Dr. Hwang said.
When used properly, car seats can reduce
the risk of infant death and injury by 71 %.