Protect Your Baby from SIDS

Are you so worried about your baby's sleep safety that you can't sleep yourself? Put your mind at ease by following these simple safety guidelines.
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Keeping Your Baby Safe

As a parent, your first priority is the safety of your baby. To put your mind at ease and help you get the rest you need, we have expert advice and tips on making sure your baby is sleeping in the safest environment possible. Tom Keens, M.D., a pediatrician and the chair of the California SIDS Advisory Council, weighs in on how to decrease Baby's risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.

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tiffanyherion1 wrote:

I am glad that we are able to refer here to websites such as this one for tips on prevention. Yet, there is still not solid reason this happens and no solid way to stop it. I guess some sweet babies let go just like Eric did. I am glad to see that this article was written by such a prominent parent's magazine, yet even if there is a way, there is no way to bring our sweet lost children back. My heart and love goes out to all the other grieving families who have lost babies to SIDS.

12/16/2011 11:51:24 PM Report Abuse
tiffanyherion1 wrote:

Wow this article really hits home. If only there were a real way to protect our precious baby from SIDS. This world would be such a much more perfect place to live. I would have my precious little Eric with me if it weren't for this curse called SIDS. He would be a happy 1 year old celebrating his 2nd Christmas season with me and I know I would be so much happier being able to watch his little life progress and him grow, instead I carry a heart full of sorrow missing him.

12/16/2011 11:51:03 PM Report Abuse
chanitasambista wrote:

i am so sorry for your loss. to others, SIDS is the acronym for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. unless definitions have changed recently, it applies when there are no identifiable causes. the baby has not suffocated, or choked, or what have you. there can be environmental or physiological ones, or both. there is practically no way to prevent them or to establish a cause.

11/21/2011 05:24:05 PM Report Abuse
jonired51 wrote:

As a parent who lost a child to SIDS on Christmas Eve many years ago I found your headline insulting and hurtful. Neither my husband or I drank or smoked and our child was found lying on his back in the crib. Please do no add guilt to the already agonizing experience parents are going through!!!!

12/31/2010 01:35:46 AM Report Abuse
blancabautista12 wrote:

i am really sorry that happened.

12/30/2010 09:52:18 PM Report Abuse
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