What Is The Best Position For My Baby During Sleep?
Parents and other caregivers should now put babies to sleep on their backs and not on their stomachs. This is because recent studies have shown an increase in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) in infants who sleep on their stomachs. Although babies placed to sleep on their sides have a lower risk of SIDS than those placed on their stomachs, the back sleep position is still the best position for infants from one month to one year. Babies positioned to sleep on their sides should be placed with their lower arm forward to help prevent them from rolling onto their stomachs. Studies have shown there is no evidence of an increased risk of choking since there has been a switch from babies sleeping on their stomachs to babies sleeping on their backs. Many parents place babies to sleep on their stomachs because they think it prevents their baby from choking on spit-up during sleep. SIDS is the diagnosis given for the sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained aft
