Cribs Best For SIDS Prevention

In what is considered to be one of the most tragic things to happen to a family with a newborn, SIDS affects 2,000 babies each year. However, a new study shows that the best chance for SIDS prevention is an open crib.

Babies should be put to sleep with pacifiers in their own cribs — not in their parents’ beds — to minimize the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, according to new recommendations issued yesterday from the nation’s largest organization of pediatricians.

The first new guidance in five years on preventing SIDS deaths from the American Academy of Pediatrics is likely to be controversial, particularly among breast-feeding moms who sleep with their babies in their beds.

The new policy, which updates the academy’s 2000 SIDS guidelines, also says that the only appropriate sleep position for infants is on their backs. Doctors have recommended that for years, but have also told mothers it is OK to let babies sleep on their sides. That is now considered too risky to even be considered an option, because infants could roll over onto their stomachs.

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This means NO BUMPERs, NO STUFFED TOYS, PLACE THE BABY ON THEIR BACK with a Pacifier.

This is about safety first. You have to ask yourself what would be worse? Your child’s arm getting stuck between crib bars for 5 minutes or suffocation? The answer is obvious and is just not worth it for the sake of “looks.”

When you are breastfeeding it has to be tough not to sleep with your baby. Its not something I can ever fully understand that same way a woman does. You are tired, you can just let them suck away, but there is a real danger there. We slept with our son in the bed at the earlier stages, but not since then. When we did, I was often up very late as a nightwatchman checking if he was breathing very often.

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