Here's just one scary stat: sleeping or napping on a couch with your baby increases risk of infant death by 67 times.
: how to get them down, how to keep them snoozing for more than twenty minutes, how to transfer them from your arms into the crib without waking them up — again. Then when they finally are asleep, you worry — how could you not? — about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or suffocation, and run to check that they’re still breathing. It all makes for a very exhausting first twelve months of parenthood.
Approximately 3,500 babies die in the United States every year from sleep-related infant deaths, including SIDS and accidental suffocation and strangulation. After a sharp decline in the ‘90s, when back-to-sleep became a slogan, these numbers have remained fairly stagnant since 2000, and racial and ethnic disparities persist. Black and Native American babies more than twice as likely to die as white babies.
While the AAP recommends that babies never share any sleep surface with an adult, some napping spots are more dangerous than others. The risk of death is 67 times higher on a couch, “soft armchair,” or cushion. Other factors that increase risk include sleeping with someone other than a parent, someone who smokes, or someone impaired by medication, illicit drugs, alcohol, or fatigue. Babies born preterm or underweight, or less than 4 months old, are also at heightened risk.
Home cardiorespiratory monitors, which track infants’ breathing and heart rates and claim to prevent SIDS, should also not be used, according to the
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