Cindy Curtis wrote:
>Interesting news blurb about babies sleeping on their back
>
>http://www.msnbc.com/news/912526.asp
>

Part of this reads:
<<Dr. Carl Hunt of the Medical College of Ohio and colleagues
analyzed information gathered in 1995 from 3,733 U.S. infants. The
mothers were asked whether the babies were put to sleep on their
stomachs, backs or sides.
        At 1, 3, and 6 months of age the mothers were asked about fever, cough, wheezing, stuffy nose, breathing trouble, sleeping problems and vomiting.
No infants choked on their own vomit or spit-up and the babies put
down on their backs were less likely than stomach sleepers to develop
fever or a stuffy nose, or to visit the doctor.>>

Now I wonder how many of the stomach-sleepers were in that category
because of some other problem in the baby such as allergy or colic,
reflux, etc. These are the babies who often hate being on their
backs. Wouldn't you think that most parents would normally heed the
public warnings and put their babies on their backs *except* if the
babies resisted it? That has been my experience with mothers in
Australia. The ones with stomach-sleeping babies have made a
conscious decision to settle their babies on their stomachs because
they sleep *much* better that way.

I reckon there are some counfounding factors in here. JMO

Joy
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