Remembering with hazy memory from way back when SIDS was in the news, didn’t they find that a substantial chunk of these were most likely when people let an infant sleep in bed with them, then rolled over in their sleep and smothered them?
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Well, it’s a factor. This doesn’t have numbers:
- Sharing a bed. The risk of SIDS rises if a baby sleeps in the same bed with parents, siblings or pets. But it may help if the infant sleeps in a separate bed in the same room with parents. That seems to lower the risk of SIDS.
Adult beds aren’t safe for infants. A baby can become trapped and suffocate between the headboard slats. Those are the spaces between the mattress and the bed frame. A baby also can get trapped in the space between the mattress and the wall. And a baby can suffocate if a sleeping parent accidentally rolls over and covers the baby’s nose and mouth.
It sounds like it’s more-generally suffocating though, since it also lists sleeping face down as a risk factor.
Yep, exponentially made more dangerous when sleeping on the same bed with parents who drink alcohol
Definitely yeeted my cat off the bed in a semi comatose state before.
I do feel like if a cat got into real trouble breathing or something, it’d probably alert its owner by means of tooth and claw.
That’s odd. SIDS is complicated. Its not just suffocation that is a risk, but undetected conditions like heart arrhythmia (like Long QT) that are undiagnosable after death.
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