Place infants on their back to sleep supine for every sleep period until they are 1 year old. This position does not increase the risk of choking and aspiration. Consider offering a pacifier at naptime and bedtime. Avoid smoke exposure during pregnancy and after birth. Avoid alcohol and illicit drug use during pregnancy and after birth. Avoid overheating and head covering in infants.
Pregnant women should obtain regular prenatal care. Infants should be immunized according to the recommended schedule. Avoid using commercial devices that are inconsistent with safe sleep recommendations, such as wedges and positioners. Supervised tummy time while the infant is awake can help development and minimize positional plagiocephaly.
There is no evidence to recommend swaddling to reduce the risk of SIDS. Health care professionals and staff in newborn nurseries and neonatal intensive care units as well as child care providers should endorse and model recommendations to reduce SIDS risk.
Media and manufacturers should follow safe sleep guidelines in messaging and advertising. Continue the Safe to Sleep campaign, focusing on ways to further reduce sleep-related deaths.
Research and surveillance should continue on all risk factors. In general, your baby should be dressed with only one layer more than you are wearing.
Do not let your child fall asleep on nursing pillows or pillow-like lounging pads. Or, when propped up on an incline against the pillow or lounger , their heads can fall forward, blocking their airway.
Never place your baby to sleep on a couch, sofa, or armchair. This is an extremely dangerous place for your baby to sleep. It is fine to swaddle your baby. However, make sure that the baby is always on his or her back when swaddled. The swaddle should not be too tight or make it hard for the baby to breathe or move his or her hips. When your baby looks like he or she is trying to roll over, you should stop swaddling.
Try giving a pacifier at nap time and bedtime. This helps reduce the risk of SIDS, even if it falls out after the baby is asleep. If you are breastfeeding, wait until breastfeeding is going well before offering a pacifier. This usually takes weeks. If you are not breastfeeding your baby, you can start the pacifier whenever you like. It's OK if your baby doesn't want a pacifier. You can try offering again later, but some babies simply don't like them.
If the pacifier falls out after your baby falls asleep, you don't have to put it back in. Do not smoke during pregnancy or after your baby is born. Keep your baby away from smokers and places where people smoke. If you are a smoker or you smoked during pregnancy, it is very important that you do not bed share with your baby.
Also, keep your car and home smoke-free. Don't smoke anywhere near your baby, even if you are outside. Do not use alcohol or illicit drugs during pregnancy or after the baby is born. It is very important not to bed share with your baby if you have been drinking alcohol or taken any medicines or illicit drugs that can make it harder for you to wake up. Breastfed babies have a lower risk of SIDS.
Breastfeed or feed your baby expressed breast milk. The AAP recommends breastfeeding as the sole source of nutrition for your baby for about 6 months. Even after you add solid foods to your baby's diet, continue breastfeeding for at least 12 months, or longer if you and your baby desire. Additionally, bumpers have been recalled because the strings used to attach them to the crib can pose a strangulation hazard, or detach and pose a choking hazard.
Between and , the CPSC reported fatal and non-fatal incidents involving bumper pads. Play yard mattresses are thin for a reason. The play yard is a flexible structure. Adding extra padding, foam or mattresses to the play yard can cause babies to suffocate in one of the following ways:. The crib should only have a fitted sheet—there should be no soft bedding and no crib bumpers. Thanks for contacting us! She wasn't involved in the study. But there are many unsafe sleeping situations that parents don't consider, she said.
It's a message that Saucedo will never forget. In the six years since Ben's death, she has turned her grief into a crusade to make sure that no other mother makes her mistake. Amanda Saucedo and her son Ben.
She volunteers for First Candle , one of the oldest SIDS nonprofits committed to educating parents about SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths, while also providing support for grieving families who have suffered a loss. Saucedo also takes her message to other mothers on Facebook with Benny Bears, a nonprofit foundation she and her family created to spread the word on safe sleep practices recommended by the AAP:.
Babies should sleep on their backs for all naps and at night until they are one year old. That applies even to babies who struggle with gastroesophageal reflux or GERD.
0コメント