Sudden Infant Death Syndrome due to Bed Sharing
Do you know sharing a bed with other children, sleeping on soft bedding, and sleeping on the stomach all increase infants’ risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)?
From researchers studied, there are 260 SIDS deaths of infants from birth to one year of age that occurred in Chicago between November 1993 and April 1996. Study has been continued on each infant who died from SIDS and information was compared on age, birth weight, and racial or ethnic group. From the same source, infants who died of SIDS were 5.4 times more likely to have shared a bed with other children and even sleeping with a mother alone or with a mother and father also were associated with risk for SIDS, but the results were not statistically significant.
Sleeping on soft bedding and sleeping on the stomach are the two known risk factors and were found to pose a much greater risk if they occurred together. Infants who slept both on soft bedding and on their stomachs, however, had 21 times the risk of those who slept on firm bedding and on their backs. Besides, there are fifteen of the SIDS deaths occurred after a child was put to sleep on a sofa and the researchers do not know why sleeping on a sofa increases the risk for SIDS; however, they warned that this practice appears to be dangerous.
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