Re: Infant flat skulls can be avoided: U.S. doctors

"Roger Schlafly" <rogersc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "JG" <jg030103@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> > Another article for the "Well, DUH!" file.   Amazing how some people
> > manage to walk without someone else (a physician?) telling them
>
> It seems obvious, but a lot of people have trouble distingui****ng
> the good pediatrician advice from the ungrounded goofy opinions.

Can you tell me what about advice that prevents kids from dying from SIDS
is
"goofy?"

 Am J Epidemiol. 2003 Mar 1;157(5):446-55.  Related Articles, Links


Infant sleeping position and the risk of sudden infant death syndrome in
California, 1997-2000.

Li DK, Petitti DB, Willinger M, McMahon R, Odouli R, Vu H, Hoffman HJ.

Division of Research, Kaiser Foundation Research Institute, Kaiser
Permanente, Oakland, CA 94612, USA. dkl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 assess the association between infant sleeping position and risk of
sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) in an ethnically diverse US
population,
the authors conducted a population-based case-control study in 11 counties
in California from May 1997 through April 2000. The authors conducted
in-person interviews with the mothers of 185 SIDS cases and 312 randomly
selected race/ethnicity- and age-matched controls to collect information
on
sleeping positions. Infants who had last been put down to sleep in the
prone
or side position were at greater risk of SIDS than were infants who had
last
been put down on their backs (adjusted odds ratio (AOR) = 2.6 (95%
confidence interval (CI): 1.5, 4.5) and AOR = 2.0 (95% CI: 1.2, 3.4) for
the
prone and side positions, respectively). The risk of SIDS was especially
high for an unstable side position in which an infant was placed on its
side
and found prone (AOR = 8.7, 95% CI: 3.3, 22.7). Infants who were usually
placed on their backs to sleep but had last been put down in the prone or
side position (an unaccustomed position) had a significantly high risk of
SIDS (AOR = 8.2 (95% CI: 2.6, 26.0) and AOR = 6.9 (95% CI: 2.3, 20.6) for
the prone and side positions, respectively). Infants placed in an
unaccustomed prone or side sleeping position had a higher risk of SIDS
than
infants who were always placed prone or on the side.

PMID: 12615609 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

> There are other drawbacks to putting babies on their backs. Nowadays,
> a lot of babies never even learn to crawl.

Better learning to walk in the wrong way (without crawling first) than
being
in a coffin.