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babies sleep safestLearning About How Babies Sleep SafestWhen you have kids, you know that having the right information and resources that are useful to you are important. You need to know the proper way to care for your children and make sure that you are instilling things that you should in them as well. You will find that knowing more about babies sleep safest is something that you can rely on. Too often we hear about a tragic loss where an dies for no apparent reasons. Most often this is attributed to SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. To reduce the risk always place babies on their backs to sleep. SIDS is the sudden and unexplainable death of a baby under the age of one. Most SID babies are found in their cribs so often you will hear these deaths referred to as crib death, even though the crib has nothing to do with the infant's death. Even today research has been unable to discover what exactly causes SIDS. Sadly it is the leading cause of death in infants under one month of age. Most SIDS deaths occur from 2 to 4 months of age and they tend to occur more often during the colder months. Studies have shown that babies placed on their stomachs to sleep are much more likely to die of SIDS than babies that sleep on their back. Studies have also shown that African American babies are two times as likely to die of SIDS and American Indian babies are three times as likely to die of SIDS. Even though the medical community has been unable to figure out what causes SIDS, there is a general concensus that the best way to reduce the risk to your baby is to have them sleep on their back, even for naps. This is very new advice. It was only a few years ago mothers were instructed to place their babies on their tummy to sleep. This change in sleeping advices has reduced the average yearly deaths from 5000 to 3000. There's still more work to do but it's a start. Make sure your baby sleeps on its back always. Whether at home, at nap time, at the grandparents, at an aunt or uncles, with a friend, or with a sitter. Make sure everyone understands and knows that your baby is to sleep on its back. Mom's tend to have some concerns about their baby choking on their back from spit or vomit while sleeping. Doctors have not found any increased risk because babies naturally swallow the fluid.... Page 2: Learning About How Babies Sleep Safest Related Articles Once you've conducted preliminary interviews, short list the potential babysitters that are left. Then have them come to your home and spend some time with the children. You should duck out to a position where you can see and hear but where neither the children nor the sitter can see you. ... |
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