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gryp
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 Thu, May 03 2007, 9:01 am
I'm staying tuned, chavamom. 
healthymama, I also heard that about pacifiers.
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chavamom
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Thu, May 03 2007, 11:33 am
I've heard it about pacifiers, but think about this - they do NOT recommend replacing a pacifier in the mouth of a baby that is asleep. So tell me, how is it any different than a baby that falls asleep at the breast?
I couldn't find a link to the info I mentioned above, however, I did find info from a Australian researcher that was related. Basically, she was disproving the idea that Aboriginals have higher incidence of SIDS. Basically, the infant death rate (shelo neida) in the first year is the same across ethnicities, just what they are attributed to is different, say "unknown" vs. "SIDS". That was the crux of the info I read. SIDS is the third leading cause of death in the first year of life. If Back to Sleep had really halved that rate, the rate of infant death in the first year should go down. But it hasn't. Other categories have gone up correlating with the decrease in SIDS rate.
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Hashem_Yaazor
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Thu, May 03 2007, 12:24 pm
Other factors in SIDS reduction:
http://cgi.thescientificworld......eaver
http://www.blackwell-synergy.c.....6.018
Chavamom, is this it? http://pediatrics.aappublicati...../1247
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Conclusions. The failure of the overall postneonatal mortality rate to decline in the face of a declining SIDS rate in 1999–2001 raises the question of whether the falling SIDS rate is a result of changes in certifier practices such that deaths that in previous years might have been certified as SIDS are now certified to other non-SIDS causes. The observation that the increase in the rates of non-SIDS causes of sudden unexpected infant death could account for >90% of the drop in the SIDS rates suggests that a change in classification may be occurring. |
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chavamom
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Thu, May 03 2007, 2:34 pm
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That's not the article I read, though it makes the same point. The article I read was not a journal article, but an article about one of the women looking into the research. One thing mentioned in the article I read not mentioned in the one quoted above is the increase in "reflux" and "gerd" diagnosis corresponding to the increase in back sleeping.
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