Cosleeping & SIDS Studies
A Review of the Studies – Part 1 Because the AAP, baby product industry, and media want you to hear only the sensationalized incomplete findings.
A Review of the Studies – Part 1 Because the AAP, baby product industry, and media want you to hear only the sensationalized incomplete findings.
July 14, 2013
The Crib Industry wants you to know that 60 “accidental” infant deaths have occurred in the United States per year, in adult beds, for age birth to 2 years. The implication is that these are co-sleeping deaths,
July 14, 2013
Breastfeeding isn’t only about providing mother’s milk. While seldom recognized in literature, doctors’ advice or common conversation, there’s a whole lot more to breastfeeding than nutrition and immunity, and some of this can be achieved during bottlefeeding as well.
By Linda Folden Palmer, DC Author of The BABY BOND (In Spanish–Click Here) A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, (May 2004), titled “Breastfeeding and the Risk of Postneonatal Death in the United States,” reports a 21% reduction in infant death for having EVER breastfed, meaning 27% more infant deaths occur when no breastmilk…
A Letter to Doctors The crib industry has gotten in bed with the CPSC to announce dramatically that 60 babies per year die from accidents in adult beds. They plan a large campaign to educate doctors and retailers about the supposed danger. One detail they seem to leave out is that a breastfeeding baby sleeping in an adult bed, made…
To U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission See also: REVIEW OF NUMEROUS SIDS STUDIES THROUGH 2005 September 30, 1999 Ann Brown U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Information and Public Affairs Washington, DC 20207 Dear Ann Brown, Your warning against placing infants in adult beds is highly erroneous, irresponsible, and will lead…