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co-sleeping and SIDS
I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of
SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. I am thinking about writing a letter about the benefits of monitoring your baby's breathing by sleeping with him. I wonder if anyone can direct me to a link that gives positive stats regarding co-sleeping and SIDS and to the research on a baby's breathing being improved by sleep sharing. TIA, Leslie |
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"Leslie" wrote in message ... I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. I am thinking about writing a letter about the benefits of monitoring your baby's breathing by sleeping with him. I wonder if anyone can direct me to a link that gives positive stats regarding co-sleeping and SIDS and to the research on a baby's breathing being improved by sleep sharing. TIA, Leslie Would you mind posting a link to the story please if there is one online? (what paper was it and where is it located I could probably find it that way) I'd love to send the author feedback saying basically that NOONE has the right to make a law dictating how I parent. Are they going to provide these CPR classes free? Are insurance companies going to cover them 100% if they're not? How about the baby monitors? Are they going to provide those in the hospital bags? (you know, the bags that have all that formula crap in them) How do they intend to make either of these laws, how would they monitor if parents actually USED the baby monitors instead of tossing them on the dining room table upon walking in the door from the hospital thinking "I'll set it up later" only to leave it until it gets shuffled to the next pile of crap in the house and not seen again till the kid goes to college? How would they make SURE the parents really understood the CPR class and if they didn't are the insurance companies going to cover the extra days in the hospital required to pass the class or are they going to say "forget it you pass so I can make my class quota for this week" That is such an unrealistic campaign, I hope she isn't wasting anyones money but her own on it. There are so many things to spend it on that would make much more sense...like what really causes SIDS to happen in the first place. Jen |
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"badgirl" wrote in message news:_mTrb.162666$HS4.1316596@attbi_s01... "Leslie" wrote in message ... I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. I am thinking about writing a letter about the benefits of monitoring your baby's breathing by sleeping with him. I wonder if anyone can direct me to a link that gives positive stats regarding co-sleeping and SIDS and to the research on a baby's breathing being improved by sleep sharing. TIA, Leslie Would you mind posting a link to the story please if there is one online? (what paper was it and where is it located I could probably find it that way) I'd love to send the author feedback saying basically that NOONE has the right to make a law dictating how I parent. Are they going to provide these CPR classes free? Are insurance companies going to cover them 100% if they're not? How about the baby monitors? Are they going to provide those in the hospital bags? (you know, the bags that have all that formula crap in them) How do they intend to make either of these laws, how would they monitor if parents actually USED the baby monitors instead of tossing them on the dining room table upon walking in the door from the hospital thinking "I'll set it up later" only to leave it until it gets shuffled to the next pile of crap in the house and not seen again till the kid goes to college? How would they make SURE the parents really understood the CPR class and if they didn't are the insurance companies going to cover the extra days in the hospital required to pass the class or are they going to say "forget it you pass so I can make my class quota for this week" That is such an unrealistic campaign, I hope she isn't wasting anyones money but her own on it. There are so many things to spend it on that would make much more sense...like what really causes SIDS to happen in the first place. Jen i guess the intention is that it may save a few lives and be worth it for that. here we can't leave the hospital without a carseat - you can make the same arguments about faulty installations or not using those too |
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Those monitors have so many false alarms. (Believe me, I've workedn in
Special Care Nurseries). After so many false alarms, parents will ignore it... CPR doesn't seem to work for (true) SIDS after so many seconds. I think it is the parent's responsibility if they want to be able to save their child early (ie from drowning, etc) with CPR... if they really want to they will learn how to do it. There is no point making it mandatory. As for car seats - All the hospital can do is say "it is law to have a baby capsule correctly fitted to transport your baby home." There is no power they have to stop you from taking the baby home with no capsule. (They can pretend they have the power, but they don't). Jo Leslie wrote: I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. I am thinking about writing a letter about the benefits of monitoring your baby's breathing by sleeping with him. I wonder if anyone can direct me to a link that gives positive stats regarding co-sleeping and SIDS and to the research on a baby's breathing being improved by sleep sharing. TIA, Leslie -- -- Babies are Born... Pizzas are delivered. |
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"JoAnna" wrote in message i guess the intention is that it may save a few lives and be worth it for that. here we can't leave the hospital without a carseat - you can make the same arguments about faulty installations or not using those too Yep, and there's a "do not drink" warning label on bleach too. Where does it stop though? It is MY responsibility as a parent to make sure my baby's car seat is installed correctly, it is MY responsibility to make sure that I know CPR or use a baby monitor, my question is with all these laws they want to impose when do I get to just be a responsible parent? It's tragic that there are so many people out there that need a law to tell them how to raise their child so they don't get them home and *let them die* which is what imposing these laws would imply IMO. What's next? a law to dictate that if a breast fed baby doesn't gain X many ounces within the first week they have to be fed formula because they've failed to thrive? Jen |
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"Leslie" wrote in message ... I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. Gawd people, leave me the fck alone. I wish someone WOULD try to make me have a monitor. Anyway, my baby likes to sleep on my chest, so I always know if she is breathing. |
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"Leslie" wrote:
I read an article in the paper this morning about a two-week-old who died of SIDS. His mother is using the tragedy as a springboard for a campaign requiring by law that 1) all parents be CPR certified before leaving the hospital and 2) that all parents of infants must have a baby monitor that will alert them if the baby stops breathing. I have to say I also find the idea of requiring CPR training & baby monitor *by law* appalling. The medical community agrees that the number one way to reduce SIDS is to place the baby to sleep on his/her back. So, if one is looking for a law that will provide the most bang-for-the-buck (save the most lives), we should write a law requiring parents place their baby to bed on its back. Horrors! I would have been clanking my tin cup on the jail bars for that one.... The Back-to-Sleep campaign has been very successful (though I'd argue it's had the negative side-effect of making most parents absolutely paranoid about their baby's sleep, even when said baby is on his/her back). If the CPR certification and baby monitor idea would further decrease the death rate due to SIDS, fine, but Back-to-Sleep wasn't mandated by law, and I'd rather use that as a model than turn parents into criminals. (I know that after a difficult birth, 48 hours in the hospital was barely enough time to recover medically, much less learn CPR.) As someone else mentioned, it's a stretch to even assume that a breathing-sensitive baby monitor (with a high number of false-positives) and CPR would even help--proving that they do should be a first step. (Presumably the Back-to-Sleep campaign started with *some* evidence about its usefulness before it was promoted heavily.) I *do* think it's useful to point out the advantages of co-sleeping in any discussion about SIDS, by the way--there's way too much misinformation about the "dangers" of co-sleeping out there. (Esp. from medical professionals, who don't distinguish in safety statistics between a nursing mother who regularly co-sleeps with her infant and drunk Uncle Ted who passed out on the bed where the baby was sleeping and rolled over him.) -Joy |
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Would you mind posting a link to the story please if there is one online?
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_2416079,00.html It appeared in this morning's Knoxville News-Sentinel. Leslie |
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I'd love to send the author feedback saying basically that NOONE has
the right to make a law dictating how I parent. That's one of my beefs with the story, though it's not the only one. Are they going to provide these CPR classes free? Are insurance companies going to cover them 100% if they're not? How about the baby monitors? Are they going to provide those in the hospital bags? (you know, the bags that have all that formula crap in them) LOL. She does want to get them provided free of charge to the poor. How do they intend to make either of these laws, how would they monitor if parents actually USED the baby monitors instead of tossing them on the dining room table upon walking in the door from the hospital thinking "I'll set it up later" only to leave it until it gets shuffled to the next pile of crap in the house and not seen again till the kid goes to college? Good point. At least with a car seat, there's a chance that someone will see you not using it in public and report you. How would they make SURE the parents really understood the CPR class and if they didn't are the insurance companies going to cover the extra days in the hospital required to pass the class or are they going to say "forget it you pass so I can make my class quota for this week" That is such an unrealistic campaign, I hope she isn't wasting anyones money but her own on it. There are so many things to spend it on that would make much more sense...like what really causes SIDS to happen in the first place. That's another funny thing about this article (which shouldn't surprise me because our paper is terrible, IMO). There is NO MENTION of possible causes of SIDS or ways to prevent it, not even the whole Back-to-sleep thing. Leslie |
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