New mothers do not receive infant care advice from physicians
Many new mothers do not receive advice from physicians on aspects of infant care such as sleep position, breastfeeding, immunization and pacifier use, according to
SIDS
Sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS is the unexplained death without warning of an apparently healthy infant, usually during sleep. Also known as crib death, SIDS has baffled physicians and parents for years.
Bed sharing with parents increases SIDS risk
Bed sharing with parents increases risk of cot death fivefold — Rates of sudden infant death would plummet if parents avoided bed sharing, advise authors – Bed sharing with parents is linked to a fivefold increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), even when the parents are non-smokers and the mother has not been drinking alcohol and does not use illegal drugs.
New research will help identify risk factors for SIDS
More evidence has emerged that a chemical imbalance in the brain may play a key role in cot deaths or SIDS revealed by researchers. – Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or SIDS is a condition that unexpectedly and unexplainably takes the lives of seemingly healthy babies aged between a month and a year. Now researchers of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Monterotondo, Italy, have developed a mouse model of the so-called crib or cot death, which remains the leading cause of death during the first year of life in developed countries.