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- Title
Where should Baby sleep to reduce the risk of SIDS?
- Authors
Burke, Michael G.
- Abstract
This article presents the results of a study regarding the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). More than half of infants who died from SIDS shared the same sleep surface with parents during their last sleep compared with one fifth of controls. Couch-sharing was associated with the greatest risk. The association between SIDS and bedsharing in young infants was not influenced by parental smoking or breastfeeding. Interestingly, sleeping in a separate room was associated with a significant risk of SIDS if either parent smoked. Investigators suggest that, for the first six months of life, the safest place for baby to sleep is in a crib in the parents' room.
- Subjects
SUDDEN infant death syndrome; INFANT death; BABY cribs; BREASTFEEDING; SMOKING
- Publication
Contemporary Pediatrics, 2005, Vol 22, Issue 10, p17
- ISSN
8750-0507
- Publication type
Article