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CHILDREN’s HEALTH

Back to Sleep: Less Than Half of US Infants Follow Safe Sleep Recommendations to Reduce SIDS Risk

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  • December 20, 2024

Fewer than half of US infants always sleep on their backs, the position doctors recommend to avoid sleep-related injuries and deaths, a study suggests. Researchers examined survey data from a nationally representative sample of US mothers. More than three in four mothers said they usually placed their infants on their backs to sleep, the survey

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CHILDREN’s HEALTH

Sleep position mothers might not know is harmful to babies

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  • May 12, 2017

According to the baseline evaluation of current sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) data, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that healthy infants, when being put down to sleep, be placed on their backs. The exact reason for this finding is not certain, but it may be related to findings that suggest that an infant who

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