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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Breastfeeding is truly one of the most natural things in the world. Breastfeeding offers many benefits to your baby. Breast milk contains the right balance of nutrients to help your infant grow into a strong and healthy toddler. Some of the nutrients in breast milk also help protect your infant against some common childhood illnesses
The World Health Organization slammed all 194 countries it evaluated for its Global Breastfeeding Scorecard released Tuesday The WHO found that only 40% of babies younger than six months old around the world are breastfed as their only means of sustenance and that only 23 of the countries looked at had exclusive breastfeeding
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