Sentences with phrase «unsafe sleeping positions»

The risk of sleep - related infant deaths, including those caused by strangulation or sudden infant death syndrome, goes up when babies are put in unsafe sleeping positions or near suffocation hazards.

Because of this, they tend to make the mistake of placing babies in unsafe sleeping positions and places.

But a study published today in the journal Pediatrics found that, contrary to these recommendations, magazines geared toward women ages 20 to 40 often portray infants in unsafe sleeping positions, which could be detrimental to new parents.

A baby's risk of death from being placed in an unsafe sleeping position or location is higher when they're under the care of a baby sitter, relative or friend, a new study found.

So I spent the first 6 months of his life on fragmented sleep, ended up in some VERY unsafe sleep positions b / c of my fear of bed sharing, like falling asleep on the couch with him in my arms.

Sleep - related deaths due to unsafe sleep environment (unsafe sleep surface, unsafe bedding, unsafe sleep position, bedsharing) annually cause more completely preventable infant loss than all other top ten causes of infant injury deaths combined.

• Sleep positioning: Unsafe sleep positioning (placement on the stomach or side) were found in 49 percent of sleep - related infant injury deaths.

Several factors affect the likelihood of a caregiver placing a baby in an unsafe sleeping position: race, education level, doctor's advice, and — newly revealed by this study — Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) variables such as attitudes, subjective norms, and perceived control.

Not exact matches

The thing about having your baby sleep on his back is that you can have the lesser opportunity of using the unsafe and inappropriate position of the stomach when sleeping.

For instance, it has been suggested that the physical restraint associated with swaddling may prevent infants placed supine from rolling to the prone position.299 One study's results suggested a decrease in SIDS rate with swaddling if the infant was supine, 182 but it was notable that there was an increased risk of SIDS if the infant was swaddled and placed in the prone position.182 Although a recent study found a 31-fold increase in SIDS risk with swaddling, the analysis was not stratified according to sleep position.171 Although it may be more likely that parents will initially place a swaddled infant supine, this protective effect may be offset by the 12-fold increased risk of SIDS if the infant is either placed or rolls to the prone position when swaddled.182, 300 Moreover, there is no evidence that swaddling reduces bed - sharing or use of unsafe sleep surfaces, promotes breastfeeding, or reduces maternal cigarette smoking.

The mother - baby sleep experts highlight some of the specific limitations of the meta - analysis, and note that it did not control for important risk factors, such as unsafe bedding, infant sleep position, and infant vulnerability due to prematurity or low birthweight.

«We had expected to see a handful of contradictions in the safe sleeping category, as previous researchers had shown most pictures of sleeping infants in these magazines depicted unsafe positions, but we were surprised at the sheer number and breadth of categories where we found offenses,» said lead author Michael B. Pitt, MD, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota Masonic Children's Hospital.