Nothing is more heart-breaking than the sudden death of an infant especially when the parents thought the infant was sleeping.
SIDS, the sudden infant death syndrome, is mysterious and remains unexplained even after an autopsy and examination of the death scene and it kills more than 2000 each year.
Monday, at the annual meeting of the american Academy of Pediatrics, new guidelines to prevent SIDS were released.
In a nutshell, they recommend giving infants over one month a pacifier at bedtime and letting infants sleep in their parents' room but not in their parents' bed.
Posted by Jill Fallon at October 11, 2005 2:32 PM | Permalink