Sudden infant deaths: Parents should sleep 12 months with baby in the room

The worry of finding one's baby dead in bed in the morning makes many parents sleep badly. Especially since doctors today puzzle over what the so-called Sudden Infant Deaths, which affects especially babies up to 6 months, even triggers.

Avoid risk factors

Meanwhile, the researchers have agreed on some risk factors that exist in affected children, and parents should avoid it.

This includes overheating the child due to thick blankets and clothing, insufficient air circulation, smoking around the child, sleeping in the prone position, too soft mattress, pillows or other moving things in the child's bed. There is also new evidence that swaddling can increase the risk of child death if children are wrong.



Pediatricians of the American Academy of Pediatrics have now added another recommendation: The babies should sleep with their parents in a room until their first birthday.

A baby who is within reach of the parents experiences "more security and physical stimulation," according to CNN. Lori Feldman-Winter, who has worked out the recommendations. And that affects, as well as breastfeeding, positive for the baby and could avoid the sudden infant death.

Would not you like to sleep in a bed together?

However, US doctors recommend putting the baby in a separate bed or cradle? and not with the parents in the parents bed. The German professional association of pediatricians also advises against it.
Whether so-called co-sleeping can trigger Sudden Infant Deaths is controversial. There are many positive aspects of this type of sleep, but also tragic cases in which babies are suffocated in the parents' bed. In the end, the parents have to weigh the risk here themselves.



Concerned parents should also consider that other factors may play a role they do not have much influence on: hereditary preloads, dysfunction of the pie, premature birth and other complications during pregnancy.

More about Sudden Infant Deaths can be found on the website of the Association of Pediatricians.

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome - Boys Town Pediatrics (March 2024).



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