In a message dated 10/10/2005 6:55:26 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
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I also  wonder why there isn't more of a push to get  tobacco out of the  
baby's environment. The 'back to sleep' campaign was very   successful, and 
crib 
death incidence did go down after this campaign. So  why not  a campaign 
against tobacco in a baby's world, which has more  and stronger  evidence 
showing 
harm?



Nikki,
You have hit the nail on the head with your comment!  I am a little  behind 
on my emails, so others may have already commented but I feel this is the  
point that needs to be made and is only being quietly mentioned.
In the Boston Globe they ran this story and the emphasis in the article was  
that parents to place their babies on their backs to sleep, use pacifiers and  
never sleep with their babies.  At the end of the article they state that  
the AAP recommends that parents not smoke near their babies.  
Why are doctors and other health care providers afraid to come down hard  
about smoking?  I would love to see the same approach to parents smoking as  the 
back to sleep campaign.  "You have a baby, you stop smoking. If you do  not 
stop smoking your baby could die from SIDS, or have a list of other long  term 
medical problems."  
But what did the AAP take as a stance to protect babies health; to put  
pacifiers in their mouths and take them out of the family bed.
I have witnessed physicians telling mothers that if they take any  
medications or have a procedure that they have to stop breastfeeding for fear of  
harming the baby but never have I seen a physician take the same firm, scare  tactic 
with smoking or drinking.
Off my soap box but still steaming.
Ann Perry, RN IBCLC
Boston, MA

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