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SIDS and bedsharing
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html
I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. -- Andrea mom of 5 - latest addition Kamron David 7 months still nursing strong with 4 teeth! |
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SIDS and bedsharing
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html
I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. I saw this on the bbc website, they really didn't seem to be distinguishing between suffocation and genuine SIDS. Maybe it is best to recommend not cosleeping to reduce the risk of suffocation. But try telling that to sleep starved new parents, we don't cosleep anymore, but ds spend part of most nights in our bed very early on, it was summer and we didn't have the duvet anywhere near him. |
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"Andrea" wrote in message ... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. -- Andrea mom of 5 - latest addition Kamron David 7 months still nursing strong with 4 teeth! The research is not done on 2 healthy sober biological parents, and those discouraging bedsharing come from the philosophy that having your baby sleep alone in a cage all night is an equally healthy or more healthy way to parent than co-sleeping. It's like saying that xx kids died on bicycles last week so parents should not get their children bicycles. Makes sense if you do not see any value at all in cycling. -- Dagny |
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"Andrea" wrote in message ... http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. Even with other safety practices in place, parental smoking and/or formula feeding appear to be risk factors for SIDs. I think that holds true no matter where the baby sleeps. Beth |
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"Andrea" wrote in message ...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. This is odd because the US Yahoo site headlined this story differently: "Nearly Half of Crib Deaths Tied to Sleep Positions" AND the news article states: "Unless the mother smoked, bedsharing had little effect on the risk of SIDS and the association was only apparent during the first 8 weeks of life. In contrast, if the mother smoked, bedsharing raised the risk of SIDS by 13-fold during the first weeks of life." I didn't read the study but if this story is an accurate account of it, this vindicates co-sleeping. As a former "journalist" I used to write headlines and essentially there are good headlines and bad headlines and headlines written just to **** people off or cause alarm. I think more alarming is the report that putting your baby in another room to sleep is a factor in SIDS. So often, I hear parents brag how their three month old is "crib trained" and sleeps all night in his own room down the hall. They sneer at people who co-sleep (as if we are weak parents). Why isn't there more made of the dangers in sleeping apart? Anyway, bottom line is that it's great they are finding some causes and preventions of SIDS. I hope they keep researching. HW |
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"Andrea" wrote in message ...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040116/325/ejk1v.html I am not sure what to think, but I won't be giving up co-sleeping. The research abstract for this study is on The Lancet's web page (www.thelancet.com). The guy's who wrote the headlines for the various news stories tended to highlight different parts of the study (which is why there were different headlines). The co-sleeping results boiled down to this one sentence: "OR [odds ratios] for bed-sharing was very small (at 2 weeks 2.4 [1.2-4.6]) and only significant during the first 8 weeks of life" One way to phrase this in a one sentence headline is: Co-sleeping with children under 2 months old was a significant risk factor for SIDS. The study found that co-sleeping was not a significant risk factor for older kids (but who starts co-sleeping with older kids, anyway?) FYI: odds ratios are a way of measuring extra risk. An equally risky activity would have an OR of 1.0 Something three times as dangerous would have an OR of 3.0. For various reasons, odds ratios of less than 2.0 are not usually considered significant. That is why the results from this study are complex. The average odds ratio was 2.4 (significant, but just so), but the range was from 1.2 (not significant) to 4.6 (highly significant). It sounds like the higher numbers were for younger kids. For comparison, the OR for getting lung cancer if you smoke is 20.0. Joshua Levy |
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