It turns out that for "cohabiting white women age 30+ with 1st baby birth weight > 3500g," the expected rate of SIDS for breast-fed infants sleeping supine and sharing a room with parents who are not smoking or intoxicated is 11 out of a million. For bed-sharing infants the expected rate is 31 out of a million.[2] In other words, my husband and I were theoretically running an additional risk of 1 in 50,000 by bed- sharing. That happens to be, according to the BMJ, the same as the risk of dying while playing soccer - something we also allowed our children to do.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 22:22:39 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015