Following the thread below on safe sleep, yesterday's local paper had this heart-wrenching, gut-wrenching news story on page 4B: "Police: Infant pronounced dead after mother falls asleep next to him". The six-week-old baby "was born approximately two months premature," was discharged home about two weeks ago, and was on a three-hour feeding cycle. "The mother went to the living room and got her son from his Pack N Play and returned to her bedroom to breastfeed him. She laid the child on the bed with her and fell asleep, authorities said. She woke up and noticed her son was lifeless and called 911."
From an AAP news release circa 2011: "Since the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommended all babies should be placed on their backs to sleep in 1992, deaths from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have declined dramatically. But sleep-related deaths from other causes, including suffocation, entrapment and asphyxia, have increased."
http://www.aap.org/en-us/about-the-aap/aap-press-room/pages/AAP-Expands-Guidelines-for-Infant-Sleep-Safety-and-SIDS-Risk-Reduction.aspx
Debra Swank, RN BSN IBCLC
Ocala FL USA
Michelle asked:
> What research based articles would you suggest for co-sleeping? I had a
> lovely conversation with a physician, (over a circumcision..non the less)
> about Dr McKenna's work. Since I live in Wisconsin, we also discussed the
> news story about co-sleeping that took place in Milwaukee. He was very open
> to working with me on teaching safe cosleeping, if I could get him relevant
> research. Currently all our discharge instructions very clearly speak to no
> cosleeping, with this physician being the most adamant about it. So this is
> a wonderful opportunity.
Here are some resources that I like on safe sleeping while breastfeeding. Not all are research, but all are thought-provoking in the face of campaigns to ban any shared sleep of any kind for all families. Review them and see what will meet your needs to share with the doctor. The others will be useful for you and the families you work with:
Safe Sleep and Night Breastfeeding:
“Safe Sleep for You and Your Baby: A Guide for Breastfeeding Families” Color pamphlet from Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, PhD, IBCLC, 2010 http://www.breastfeedingmadesimple.com/KKTtearsheet.pdf
Infant Sleep Information Source: http://www.isisonline.org.uk/
Information for parents and carers from Professor Helen Ball and the Durham University Parent – Infant Sleep Lab, United Kingdom.
“Why babies should never sleep alone: A review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breast feeding” by James J. McKenna and Thomas McDade, Paediatric Respiratory Reviews (2005), 6, 134-152. http://www.naturalchild.org/james_mckenna/cosleeping.pdf
“Safe Cosleeping Guidelines” from the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory, Notre Dame University
http://cosleeping.nd.edu/safe-co-sleeping-guidelines/
Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol on Cosleeping and Breastfeeding
http://www.bfmed.org/Resources/Protocols.aspx
See Protocol #6
"5 Cool Things No One Ever Told You About Nighttime Breastfeeding" from Breastfeed Chicago
http://breastfeedchicago.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/5-cool-things-no-one-ever-told-you-about-nighttime-breastfeeding/
Fox News Program on SIDS and Infant Deaths in Milwaukee, May 14, 2010. 9.23 minutes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3YXRf59TGs&sns=fb
(Watch through to the end)
“Should the AAP Sleep Alone?” by Melissa Bartick, MD. Blog on Breastfeeding Medicine 4/9/14.
http://bfmed.wordpress.com/2014/04/09/should-the-aap-sleep-alone/
Anne Altshuler, RN, MS, IBCLC, LLLL
Madison, WI
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