Sudden, unexpected infant death occurs rarely, and very rarely in the first month and after six years of age. Even with today's knowledge is often sitting with no answers to why this child died. Perhaps the child had a congenital weakness that worked together with other factors?
IMPORTANT:
- let the child sleep on his back
- no smoking
- avoid hot sleeping environment
- give your child breast milk
- let the child sleep in the same room with you, within earshot
- avoid sharing a bed with your child if you are a smoker, the influence of narcotic substances , the water bed or very soft ground, you are sick or significantly overweight. Read more about sleeping together below
Infants are particularly vulnerable in two to four months of age. At the time it happens normally large changes in the ability to regulate cardiac and respiratory activity. Some features are still often left with SIDS: it is typical - with many exceptions - that the child's lifeless small hours, in winter, a weekend, and that in advance has been: - a little out of balance, often with a viral infection. It lies on the stomach, perhaps with blanket or quilt over her head and is warmly dressed, not infrequently with hat indoors. The child was perhaps born prematurely and / or were underweight at birth. Compared to the average, it is common that the mother is young, single, smoke, have nursed a short time and have children from before. - A major contributing cause of SIDS was for many years the habit of adding babies to sleep on your stomach. Then came the campaign in 90 years to let the kids sleep on the side or preferably on the back.
After the infants were again put on the back is the number of crib deaths decreased substantially. In 1996, died 38 Norwegian children in the crib against 151 in 1989. - Part of the decline is NOK that smoking among pregnant women declined significantly in 90 years. Next to face-down is tobacco smoking the greatest known risk factor for SIDS. Both the mother smokes during pregnancy and tobacco smoke in the infant's environment is dangerous. A long series of investigations from a doubling to a six-fold increase in risk in children of smokers. There is an increased risk of recurrence in families who have lost a child in the crib. It is uncertain whether this is due to environmental factors, genetic system, or an interaction between both. Children who are breastfed have a slightly higher risk. The same applies to twins.
sleeping together or not? recently calling horrified parents: "Is it true that we do not have to sleep with the baby in bed?" The reason for this is that professionals have gone out with this advice because several studies have shown that SIDS occurs more often in co-sleeping. It often does not arrive, is that this mainly seems to apply to smokers. It was raised the alarm when it appeared that the children of colored women in the U.S. and New Zealand had increased risk of SIDS. This was the ethnic groups that traditionally had been sleeping with their children, and it was thought at first that co-sleeping could be the reason. As it turned out, however, that these underprivileged groups smoked more and had poorer living conditions than the groups were compared. In countries where it is common that the mother has the child until their bodies day and night to SIDS occur very rarely. In industrialized societies like the U.S. has long been the norm that infants should sleep alone. In such countries, it is conceivable that some of those who deviate from these accepted norms and sleeping with your child, do so because of poverty, apathy due to abuse of alcohol, narcotics or drugs, neglect, etc.
There are varying in the degree these factors appear in research reports. Studies from cultures where the mother share a bed with the child, but virtually never smokers, the low incidence of SIDS. It applies, for example. Japanese, Hong Kong Chinese, people from Bangladesh and the Pacific Islands. In a joint study of SIDS in Norway, Sweden and Denmark, led by the Medical Birth Registry, it is shown that the increased risk of co-sleeping only applies when the mother is a smoker.
