Re: News, SIDS, AAP guidelines

dragonlady wrote:

> According to this morning's San Jose Mercury News, the AAP (American
> Academy of Pediatrics) has come up with new guidelines to reduce SIDS
> (Sudden Infant Death Syndrom). The two most controversial pieces of
> advice are to NOT co-sleep, and to use a pacifier.
>
> As far as I can tell from the article, there is no scientific evidence
> to back up either of these recommendations. Quoting briefly from the
> article:
[snip]

It took some poking about, but the abstract is here
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/pediatrics;peds.2005-1499v1

and the whole thing is here:
http://aappolicy.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/pediatrics;peds.2005-1499v1

The section on bed sharing says that the matter is contraversal, gives some
studies that discuss bedsharing and other sleeping arrangements, and says
"investigators in Scotland endorsed the United Kingdom Department of
Health's advice that the safest place for an infant to sleep is in a crib
in the parents' room for the first 6 months of life. "

The recommendations at the end of the guidelines agreed with this.

HTH

--
Penny Gaines
UK mum to three
.

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