Hi Ruth,
 
I asked Jim McKenna to respond to your email.  Jim's new book, "Sleeping
With Your Baby: A Parent's Guide to Cosleeping" is just out so hopefully
we'll be hearing a lot more discussion about this topic in the next few
months!
 
- Dia
 
 
Dear Ruth:


There is no evidence anywhere on the earth that a baby sleeping prone on its
mothers chest is at increased risk of dying from SIDS, or from suffocation.
Sleeping prone on a living body is not the same as sleeping prone on an
inert, unmoving and responding, mattress..One idea of why prone sleep kills
infants is re-breathing lethal doses of CO2..But on a mothers chest is not
the place where CO2 could pool as it is highly sensitive to vibrations (it
breaks up the pooling) and breadth itself (of the mother). I am not certain,
nor is everyone convinced that re-breathing CO2  is the reason babies die as
sleeping too deeply and not arousing while sleeping prone is just as likely
a cause..But nonetheless..the only potential danger I could see..which is
not in evidence at the moment is that a baby could slip off its mothers
chest and in some way get wedged. but I know of no case in which this
occurred.


jim mckenna
 
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Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2007 20:26:14 -0400
From: Ruth Solomon <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Looking for SIDS articles

I am looking for research that shows sleeping babies held skin to skin = or
being held by parents is not in conflict with the Back to Sleep = campaign
or the AAP safe sleep guidelines.This is not a co-sleeping = issue. I am
dealing with concerns that babies should be on their backs = whenever they
sleep.

Please email me privately

Ruth Solomon, RN,IBCLC


 

 

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