Hi Ruth!
Dr Palmer's Articles are available from his website:
_http://www.brianpalmerdds.com/_ (http://www.brianpalmerdds.com/) 

Laura Wright  


Date:    Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:32:41 -0400
From:   Dia Michels <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Looking for  SIDS articles

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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