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Samantha Gray <[log in to unmask]>
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Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:32:51 -0500
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Dear Lactnet Community,
 
The messages around what constitutes safe sleep during infancy and childhood
are confusing at best, and in some cases misleading. State health
departments and other organizations feel compelled to address several recent
highly-publicized infant deaths and do so using the only resources available
to them: those that advocate that the safest place for a baby to sleep is
alone in a crib in his or her own room.
 
Unfortunately, as you know, many of these resources promote practices that
not only put children at higher risk for SIDS, but also compromise the
breastfeeding relationship, thereby exposing these children to increased
health risks. But scare tactics (like a recent SIDS Alliance claim that an
infant's risk of death in the U.S. is 40 times higher when bedsharing than
when sleeping in a crib) not only confuse infant deaths in cribs with infant
suffocation deaths, but also seem to inappropriately label deaths that occur
when parents are intoxicated, or when they fall asleep holding an infant on
a couch or recliner, as "co-sleeping deaths."
 
What Attachment Parenting International is doing to help provide parents
with the information they need to make an informed choice is coordinating
the creation and distribution of research-based Safe Infant Sleep materials
--ones that acknowledge that there are ways to safely co-sleep and bedshare,
provide practical safety tips to parents, and that inform parents of how
they can best sleep safely while at the same time maintaining a strong
breastfeeding relationship and continuing to respond sensitively to baby's
nighttime needs. 
 
We are reaching out to people like you to partner with us to distribute
these materials in your communities and networks. Our hope is that this
approach will allow us to get research-based information in the hands of
parents who need it--many of whom we know are co-sleeping regardless of
whether they have the best safety guidelines at hand-- as well as state and
local health departments, pediatricians, and other members of the healthcare
service industry.  We welcome your input and ideas.
 
Please contact Julie Artz, API's Communication Coordinator, if you are
interested in participating in this important work
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I am passionate about getting this information out and hope to have your
support.  Thank you.

Sincerely,
Samantha Gray, LLL Leader and
Executive Director, Attachment Parenting International
 
API
423.878.8359
423.946.3525
 

 


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