Does anyone no anything about SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME?
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there really is no hard facts about cot death but there are some guidlines that they tell you such as putting the baby to sleep on his back and not allowing baby to come into contact with cigarette smoke but sadly not alot is known why it happens, dont worry iwas the same when my baby was first born i used to prod him to make sure he was still awake i think its just a mummy thing.
I've heard that certain mattresses can release chemicals that can be released and that can be a cause of SIDS. They now make mattress pad covers for this reason. This is something I had never heard before.
I'm no professional on SIDS, but my mom is a child health RN and studies child fatality. She has this theory that sometimes the autonomic responses aren't quite developed and the baby's brain doesn't tell him/her to breathe. I thought that was kind of an interesting take on it. She told me that there have been no reported cases of SIDS over 6 mos of age (in our state, anyway). I was left with the impression that SIDS is not something that is preventable, it's just some freak thing that happens.
To be honest there are so many theories about what may cause it that a lot of it contradicts itself. We have been told to put our children to sleep on their front, then their side and now their back, the room must not be too hot or too cold, we were first to put them in a cot with their head right to the top, now it's their feet right to the bottom.
No one really knows. It's every parents fear that it is going to happen and we do everything they tell us to do to try and prevent it, but i think at the end of the day that it is a 'malfunction' within the child that causes it.
Click below for more information:
http://www.sids-network.org
sudden infant death syndrome could happen if a part of the babys body isnt fully developed before birth properly. ask your doctor if ur still worried.
unfortunately, SIDS is not something that is preventable through knowledge. its a freak accident of the body, which could be due to many factors, or it can be simply chance. It occurs less frequently in adults too, and in adults is usually found to occur due to a fault with the heart. just stick to the golden rules regarding temperature and position of sleeping baby.
read what wikipedia has to ask on it.
hope this helps
Actually a great Military Commander Doctor told me ones, that this kind of Sudden Infant Death appears, when Infants crawl in corners of a grip(with bed bombs) and can't breath anymore.It kind a made sense because little kids you start crawling, crawl during sleep all over the place in the grip and if there get stuck in on corner they are not capable to breath well anymore and die.
My little one use to do that a lot to crawl in corners or something like that i just had to check on her in the night constantly and didn't left her side cause i was really afraid about my one too.
Basically Google it. I did however see recently see that letting your baby suck a pacifier helps in preventing S.I.D.S.
there's some charts on the link below about vaccines
http://thinktwice.com/sids.htm
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that children diagnosed with asthma (a respiratory ailment not unlike SIDS) were five times more likely than not to have received pertussis vaccine.(1) Another study found that babies die at a rate eight times greater than normal within three days after getting a DPT shot.(2) The three primary doses of DPT are given at two months, four months, and six months. About 85 percent of SIDS cases occur at one through six months, with the peak incidence at age two to four months.
In a recent scientific study of SIDS, episodes of apnea (cessation of breathing) and hypopnea (abnormally shallow breathing) were measured before and after DPT vaccinations. "Cotwatch" (a precise breathing monitor) was used, and the computer printouts it generated (in integrals of the weighted apnea-hypopnea density -- WAHD) were analyzed. The data clearly shows that vaccination caused an extraordinary increase in episodes where breathing either nearly ceased or stopped completely. These episodes continued for months following vaccinations. Dr. Viera Scheibner, the author of the study, concluded that "vaccination is the single most prevalent and most preventable cause of infant deaths."(3) (See the diagram below.)
cosleeping and SIDS
http://www.babyreference.com/cosleeping&...
Dr. William Sears has some theories on this that you might be interested in. When I researched it 9 months ago when my son was born, his webpage said that co-sleeping may actually reduce the risk of SIDS if certain co-sleeping guidelines are followed. I think his theory had to do with the mingling of the infant's breath with the mother's breath which provided the right balance of carbon dioxide to "re-start' a non-breathing child. I don't know if I'm remembering this right, so check out the website www.askdrsears.com and type SIDS into the search section at the top of the page. I think personally that if a mother is such a light sleeper when she co-sleeps then she'll wake up if something is wrong with her baby.
I have read that there have been studies that link SIDS to babies being overheated. It is more prevelant in winter months, which is part of their theory. I have been told to ONLY put my baby to sleep on his back, if he rolls to his stomach then thats ok. make sure they are warm, but not too warm when they go to sleep.
- Do not let your baby to sleep on her tummy.
- No pillows or use a special pillow for a baby. I used a new bath towel folded twice for a while when my baby was very little.
- It is better if your baby is sleeping in the cot without cot bumpers or if it is drafty use then very short in hight cot bumper like the IKEA sells. They are fine.
- Do not sleep with your baby if you are not sure about yourself and your partner. You could harm your baby during the night especially if you drunk or very tired.
- The temperature in the room should be no more than + 21 Celcius and the air should be fresh, no smoke after cooking or smoking. The cloths should not smells with smoke eaither.
- Do not sleep with your baby on the sofa as she/he can be suffocated behind the pilows. You know the sofas with pillows.
-Pay attention when your baby is sleeping: the position of the head (not too hight but flat or just slighly high, 2 or 3 cm).
- Do not rely on baby monitors. Check your baby regularly.
- Do not worry to much but just pay attention.
- If you are breastfeeding, do not drink alchohol or any medicine (sleeping pills, antidepressants) which could harm your baby (check it with yur doctor). Also try not to eat nuts or anything which could cause your baby allergy through breastfeeding (also check it with your GP or healthvisitor).
Cannot remember what else could be :)
One more thing: do not cover your baby with douvet. Try a few blunkets so he/she would not get overheated.
Also do not put your baby sleeping immediately after feeding. You should hold her vertically for a few minutes so the extra air would come out through the mouth. Just hold the baby on your shoulder.
I do know that the instances of SIDS has decreased with advising parents to put baby to sleep on their backs or sides. (they dont always have to be that way - just until they are able to turn themselves over...or if you you arent going to be in the room with them.) Also, parents who smoke in the home do have a higher rate of SIDS deaths.
Well im preganant at the min but my friend has two children and shes also studyin child care.she told me tht if u leave the baby for so long cryin through out the night this can cause death aswell.But its also the type ov matress u hav and how often u change beddin and also turn the mattress around hope this helps
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