Parents still engaging in risky infant sleep practices, CDC says
01/11/2018 | ConsumerAffairs | Family & parenting By Sarah D. Young Sarah D. Young has been a columnist for a blog aimed at Millennials and has also worked in early childhood education and has been a reading tutor to at-risk youth. Infant deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) have reached an annual average of about 3,500 a year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control. Although that number represents an overall decrease in the number of sleep-related infant deaths since the 1990s, the CDC says the rate of SIDS deaths is no longer declining. The agency says its new analysis …
Health officials: Sleeping beside your baby is not safe
By Mike Montecalvo | Published: May 8, 2017, 5:00 pm | Updated: May 8, 2017, 8:22 pm |WPRI.com EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Sleeping in the same bed with your baby may sound logical, even comforting. But health officials warn it’s not safe. Now, a mother is speaking out after her newborn died right next to her. Amanda Saucedo is a mother of three and said after her second baby, she never really understood the dangers of co-sleeping. She tells Eyewitness News the bedtime routine was the same every night: she would put her newborn son, Ben, to sleep in …
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