«Given the concerning data about inadequate adherence to safe sleep practices for all infants and in particular for preterm infants, we need to better engage families about adhering to
safe sleep practices at the individual, community, hospital and public health levels,» Dr. Hwang concluded.
Parents will be surveyed later to determine if they're following
safe sleep practices at home.
Not exact matches
With continued research from these and other medical and scientific professionals as well as parents providing support to other parents, Attachment Parenting
practices like babywearing, keeping babies close by holding them, ensuring
safe sleep by keeping babies and children close
at night, and extended breastfeeding will become the new norm.
Safe baby
sleep guidelines from the AAP also cover some best
practices for feeding and soothing your baby
at night.
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.
Certainly infants
sleeping separated from their caregivers
at night (solitary room
sleeping), infants
sleeping on their stomachs (prone) to promote uninterrupted, early consolidation of adult - like
sleep, and bottle - feeding with formula or cows milk rather than breast milk were all novel, culturally - sanctioned but scientifically - untested (as
safe or best) infant care innovations.1 It is now known that each of these
practices has contributed to or led to thousands of SIDS deaths.3 - 5 Many of these infant lives, we can infer, could have been saved had we more carefully examined and come to understand the biological validity of mother - infant
safe co-
sleeping, breastfeeding and infants
sleeping on their backs (supine).