SIDS takes the lives of about 3,400 babies each year. This number has been continuously decreasing over the past 25 years due to better sleep practices, but SIDS is still the leading cause of death in infants between one month and one year of age. ...
Place infants on their backs for sleep in their own sleep space with no other people. Use a crib, bassinet or portable play yard with a firm, flat mattress and a fitted sheet. Avoid sleep on a couch, armchair or in a seating device, like a swing or car safety seat (except while rid...
Adoption of new regulations can aid in education of child care providers and, thus, improve the safety for infants in child care. crib safety, prone position, sleep position, smoking regulations, sudden infant death syndrome, child care, intervention.Moon...
Many states use child care regulations that were written before the initial policy statements of the American Academy of Pediatrics regarding safe sleep environments for infants. Even those more recently adopted regulations do not adequately address sleep safety for infants. Pediatricians need to become ...
Sleep-related infant deaths are reported as one of the leading causes of non-natural infant deaths in the country. An expert with Baylor College of Medicine explains how to ensure infant sleep safety and why their safety may be compromised.
1 As part of a larger research study,2 46 African American mothers were asked about their infants’ sleep practices during 3 separate encounters on the same day: a survey administered by a research assistant (RA), a well-baby visit with the pediatrician, and a safe sleep discussion with a...
Only 36 pictures (36.4%) of infant sleep environments portrayed a safe sleep environment, as recommended by the AAP.CONCLUSIONS: More than one third of pictures of sleeping infants in magazines geared toward childbearing women demonstrated infants in an inappropriate sleep position, and two thirds ...
10 tips to keep infants safe (Family Features) October is Safe Sleep Awareness Month and the U.S. continues to have a higher infant mortality rate tha...
According to the new statement, these risks are "particularly high for infants less than four months of age, or if the infant was born preterm or with low birthweight." But if you're still going to bed-share anyway, there are steps you can take to mitigate the risks. If you can, ...
reasons why parents may create and/or tolerate varying degrees of risk in their infants' sleep environments, and approaches to improving infant sleep safety... Volpe,Lane,E.,... - 《Archives of Disease in Childhood Education & Practice Edition》 被引量: 1发表: 2015年 ...