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Article: Proper infant sleeping position.
- Article from:
- Pediatrics for Parents
- Article date:
- April 1, 1992
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1992 Pediatrics for Parents, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Until recently, most physicians told parents to put their babies to bed stomach-down. The conventional wisdom was that the prone (stomach-down) position was safer for infants because it helped prevent them from choking on regurgitated milk or formula. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), there is no evidence that aspiration occurs more frequently when infants lay on their backs than when they lay on their stomachs or sides.
Several studies from New Zealand, Australia, and England demonstrate a strong association between the prone position during sleep and the risk for an infant succumbing to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The SIDS ...