Other possible risks include: smoking, drinking, or drug use during pregnancy and after birth poor prenatal care prematurity or low birth weight family history of SIDS mothers younger than 20 being around tobacco smoke after birth overheating Doctors diagnose most health problems based on the symptoms they cause.
Why Is Stomach Sleeping Dangerous? Page 2 What Is "Back to Sleep"? Common Concerns Some parents might worry about " flat head syndrome " positional plagiocephaly. What Is "Safe to Sleep"? Here's how parents can help reduce the risk of SIDS and other sleep-related deaths: Get early and regular prenatal care. Place your baby on a firm mattress to sleep, never on a pillow, waterbed, sheepskin, couch, chair, or other soft surface. Cover the mattress with a fitted sheet and no other bedding.
Keep soft objects and loose bedding out of the sleep area. Do not use bumper pads in cribs. Bumper pads can be a suffocation or strangulation hazard. Practice room-sharing without bed-sharing. Experts recommend that infants sleep in their parents' room — but on a separate surface, like a bassinet or crib next to the bed — until the child's first birthday, or for at least 6 months, when the risk of SIDS is highest.
Breastfeed , if possible. Exclusive breastfeeding or feeding with expressed milk is most protective, but any breastfeeding has been shown to reduce the risk of SIDS. Put your baby to sleep with a pacifier during the first year of life. If your baby rejects the pacifier, don't force it. Read more about reducing the risk of SIDS. Babies often have minor illnesses that you do not need to worry about.
Give your baby plenty of fluids to drink and do not let them get too hot. Read more about spotting signs of serious illness in children.
If a baby dies suddenly and unexpectedly, there will need to be an investigation into how and why they died. A post-mortem examination will usually be necessary, which can be very distressing for the family. The police and healthcare professionals work closely to investigate unexpected infant deaths and ensure the family is supported.
They should be able to put you in touch with local sources of help and support. Who is at risk for SIDS? Factors that may place a baby at higher risk of dying from SIDS include the following: babies who sleep on their stomach or their side rather than their back overheating while sleeping too soft a sleeping surface, with fluffy blankets or toys mothers who smoke during pregnancy three times more likely to have a baby with SIDS exposure to passive smoke from smoking by mothers, fathers, and others in the household doubles a baby's risk of SIDS mothers who are younger than 20 years old at the time of their first pregnancy babies born to mothers who had little, late, or no prenatal care premature or low birth weight babies having a sibling who died of SIDS Are there any theories about why SIDS occurs?
The model holds that SIDS occurs when three conditions exist simultaneously: the infant has an underlying e. Can SIDS be prevented?
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Kevin B. Churchwell, President and CEO. The best bet might be simply moving your baby's crib into your room. Your little one should be able to move around and squirm while sleeping. He advises parents to avoid super-narrow bassinets and other small beds. Binkies actually reduce the risk of SIDS. Moon says, "but it may be that sucking on a pacifier brings a baby's tongue forward, which opens the airway a little bit more.
The AAP now recommends that you consider giving your child a pacifier at night and for naps during his first year. Note: If you're breastfeeding, don't introduce a Binky until your infant is 1 month old and nursing well. Babies who are breastfed are more easily roused from sleep than formula-fed babies, which may be a reason breastfed babies are less likely to die from SIDS.
Mothers who breastfeed are also less likely to smoke , and a baby's exposure to smoke—both in the womb and secondhand—increases the risk for SIDS, says Dr. Just because you're up-to-date on SIDS safety doesn't mean your childcare provider is.
Consider these frightening statistics: One out of five SIDS deaths occurs when a baby is in day care or being watched by someone other than a parent, according to research in the journal Pediatrics. And more than 20 percent of babies in day-care centers are put down for naps on their tummy.
Review SIDS precautions with everyone who watches your child, whether it's a day-care worker, a babysitter , a relative, or a friend. They must know how to keep your infant safe while he sleeps, so you can rest easy. Unless your baby has a diagnosed cardiac or respiratory illness, using an electronic breathing monitor doesn't help, studies show—and it may actually give parents a misguided sense of security. Devices marketed to reduce carbon dioxide rebreathing, such as crib mattresses with built-in fans, are also not proven to be effective.
And avoid wedge-shaped sleep positioners that claim to keep your baby on her back: An infant can slide off and suffocate against it. Although the causes of SIDS sudden infant death syndrome are still largely unknown, doctors do know that the risk of SIDS appears to peak between 2 and 4 months.
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