Scientific consensus forum to review the evidence underpinning the recommendations of the Australian SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping Health Promotion Programme – October 2010

Mitchell, Edwin A.; Freemantle, Jane; Young, Jeanine; Byard, Roger W.

doi:10.1111/j.1440-1754.2011.02215.x

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“…Further, these researchers found that maternal concern about infant sleep duration was more prominent than their concern about SIDS. Families of both late preterm and term infants may benefit from greater awareness of the association of room sharing with reduced infant mortality from SIDS, particularly because covered infant airways and non-supine sleep position are more likely to occur in solitary infant sleep environments [34]. Better parental understanding of infant developmental processes can move the infant sleep conversation towards healthful nighttime family interactions and away from the desire to instill ‘independence’ in neonates that contributed to nighttime arrangements in our study.…”

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The Relationship Between Planned and Reported Home Infant Sleep Locations Among Mothers of Late Preterm and Term Infants

Tully

Holditch‐Davis

Brandon

2015

Matern Child Health J

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Objective To compare maternal report of planned and practiced home sleep locations of infants born late preterm (34 0/7 to 36 6/7 gestational weeks) with those infants born term (≥ 37 0/7 gestational weeks) over the first postpartum month. Methods Open-ended semi-structured maternal interviews were conducted in a U.S. hospital following birth and by phone at one month postpartum during 2010–2012. Participants were 56 mother-infant dyads: 26 late preterm and 30 term. Results Most women planned to room share at home with their infants and reported doing so for some or all of the first postpartum month. More women reported bed sharing during the first postpartum month than had planned to do so in both the late preterm and term groups. The primary reason for unplanned bed sharing was to soothe nighttime infant fussiness. Those participants who avoided bed sharing at home commonly discussed their fear for infant safety. A few parents reported their infants were sleeping propped on pillows and co-sleeping on a recliner. Some women in both the late preterm and term groups reported lack of opportunity to obtain a bassinet prior to childbirth. Conclusions The discrepancy between plans for infant sleep location at home and maternally reported practices were similar in late preterm and term groups. Close maternal proximity to their infants at night was derived from the need to assess infant well-being, caring for infants, and women’s preferences. Bed sharing concerns related to infant safety and the establishment of an undesirable habit, and alternative arrangements included shared recliner sleep.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Relationship Between Planned and Reported Home Infant Sleep Locations Among Mothers of Late Preterm and Term Infants

Tully

Holditch‐Davis

Brandon

2015

Matern Child Health J

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“…However, while this practice makes sense to avoid covering an infant's head, and there was an increase in this practice seen in case-control studies during 1993-96 and 2003-06 particularly in non-SIDS infants, 50 there have been no studies to support that this is protective. 51 Recently, use of an infant sleeping bag has been recommended. A safe infant sleeping bag is one in which the infant cannot slip inside the bag and therefore the head cannot be covered.…”

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Sudden infant death syndrome and advice for safe sleeping

Horne

Hauck

Moon

2015

BMJ

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“…Important papers such as the recently published one by Mitchell et al (2012) continue to present the risk factors of prone sleep position and bed-sharing in a way that infers respiratory compromise. Similarly, recent studies into these SIDS risk factors would appear to take the same "respiratory" approach to the problem (Baddock et al 2012).…”

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SIDS Risk Factors: Time for New Interpretations. The Role of Bacteria

Goldwater¹,

Bettelheim²

2013

PRIJ

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The aim of this paper is to help draw attention to perceived ideas regarding the risk factors and the implied pathogenesis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), and SIDS research in general. Our paper shows there is little if any evidence to support the broadly held notion of an association between respiratory function and sudden infant death syndrome. Researchers who hold to this approach to explain the risk factors of bed-sharing and prone sleep position, etc. have failed to meet the standards of scientific endeavour that we would expect of good research. To counter this imbalance we have proposed an evidence-based explanation for SIDS risk factors showing that microbiological studies of SIDS corroborate epidemiologic and pathological data in establishing a plausible pathogenetic mechanism. We reviewed recent publications on current research and the epidemiology of SIDS and publications on the microbiology of SIDS. Conclusion: Comparison of the data presented, suggest that the risk factors of bed-sharing, and smoke exposure, prone sleep position and alcohol can be explained by the theories of a microbiological infection model of SIDS pathogenesis.

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Scientific consensus forum to review the evidence underpinning the recommendations of the Australian SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping Health Promotion Programme – October 2010

Cited by 38 publications

References 100 publications

The Relationship Between Planned and Reported Home Infant Sleep Locations Among Mothers of Late Preterm and Term Infants

The Relationship Between Planned and Reported Home Infant Sleep Locations Among Mothers of Late Preterm and Term Infants

Sudden infant death syndrome and advice for safe sleeping

SIDS Risk Factors: Time for New Interpretations. The Role of Bacteria

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