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Sudden infant death: Parents show ignorance of cot death hazards
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
28 February 2008
Most parents are not aware of the major cot death hazards, according to new research published at the launch of a three-year campaign to highlight the risks.
In a study carried out for the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) and Mothercare, 797 parents of children aged under three were presented with a picture of a baby sleeping in a room containing eight cot death risks. Only a quarter of the parents could identify more than half of the potential hazards. The researchers found that: - 90 per cent of parents did not mention the baby sleeping in its own room as being...
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