Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

Swaddling may help sleeping babies remain on their backs

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, January 5th, 2003

Infants sleep with fewer awakenings when swaddled, and swaddling may help sleeping infants remain on their backs, say researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

SIDS deaths have decreased nearly 50% since the American Academy of Pediatrics 1992 recommendation that babies be placed on their backs to sleep. But when infants reach 2 months of age, about 20% of parents in the United States place their babies on their stomachs to sleep because they say they appear more comfortable or to sleep better.

"That's also the time when babies have enough strength and are big enough that they can escape from the typical 'burrito' wrap...

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