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Smoking and sleeping are chief culprits in SIDS
By Catherine Gaunt,
Nursery World,
14 February 2008
Educating parents to stop smoking during pregnancy and to follow safe sleeping advice for their babies is the key to tackling cot death, according to expert research.
An article in last week's British Medical Journal suggested that since the term sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) was introduced in 1969, more has been learned about risk factors and that it may be time to stop classifying unexplained infant deaths as SIDS. It said that smoking during pregnancy and parents sharing beds with their newborn babies account for most cot deaths. The Foundation for the Study of Infant Death (FSID) said that if no woman smoked during...
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