Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life
by tsewlliw on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @04:48PM
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"Safe Sleep". Hopefully that campaign of education will eliminate the idea that these infants are just randomly dying and promote -- the mechanism is not unclear, just nobody wants to tell a grieving parent that they are responsible for death of their child.
Are you sure? We are talking about children that after autopsy are not found with a clear cause of death. See the wikipedia page about that.
Re:Good sleep, good learning, good life
by purephase on Tuesday February 19, 2013 @05:25PM
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We know all this, which is why I didn't sleep while Mum and baby were in bed. It was the only way that we could get my daughter to sleep for a few hours at a time. All other methods (co-sleeping devices, cradle at the side of the bed, crib at the bottom) were not successful (or marginally better).
The simple fact was that she needed to be close to Mum.
Things are better now, but it honesty felt like we were all going to drop dead at around the 2 month mark. I've never been so exhausted in my life.
The reason is probably http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_infant_death_syndrome - no one is exactly sure why some babies dies without a visible reason, but there are some correlations.
Sharing a bed with parents or other siblings may increase risk for SIDS, but the mechanism remains unclear
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148046 The risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has fallen dramatically in the "Back to Sleep" era; however, half the cases now occur when the infant has been sleeping in bed with another person.