Health and Fitness

Factors Beyond Sleep Environment Contribute to Decrease in SIDS

Elk Grove Village, IL—(ENEWSPF)—December 3, 2015. Major safety changes in babies’ sleep environment contributed to dramatic reductions in the rate of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in the United States since 1992. That’s when the American Academy of Pediatrics first recommended against placing babies to sleep in a chest-down position and efforts to reduce suffocation hazards such as soft crib bedding got underway.

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