anyone who thinks an infant sleeping on its stomach is dangerous is behind the times.
LadyLorraine Send a noteboard - 26/04/2012 01:51:59 PM
That idea came about in the 60s when some famous baby doctor wrote some idiot book about babies and claimed putting babies on their backs prevented SIDS. He made these claims with no scientific evidence, btw, but the mom's just ate his book up. When the scientific community went "hmm this...doesn't seem to be working", they did an actual study on it and found that making babies sleep on their back was actually DETRIMENTAL.
Apparently there was a massive PR campaign in the UK when this information came out and within a year or so of parents letting their babies sleep on their stomachs, SIDS rates had plumetted.
((We talked about this case in our Epidemeology/Evidence-Based Medicine course a couple semesters, so I don't have all the details. The case itself wasn't really the take-home message ))
Apparently there was a massive PR campaign in the UK when this information came out and within a year or so of parents letting their babies sleep on their stomachs, SIDS rates had plumetted.
((We talked about this case in our Epidemeology/Evidence-Based Medicine course a couple semesters, so I don't have all the details. The case itself wasn't really the take-home message ))
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Books for very small children: suggestions?
20/04/2012 12:19:39 AM
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Really, before 18 months you're wasting your time
20/04/2012 01:26:05 AM
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I dunno. I really enjoyed books when I was that young
20/04/2012 03:12:29 AM
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At a year and a half?
20/04/2012 06:18:01 PM
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I don't remember reading quite that young, but I do remember not long after that.
20/04/2012 09:35:11 PM
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Color me slightly skeptical.
21/04/2012 01:17:51 PM
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I double checked. I was confusing it with another event. I was about 2.5 *NM*
22/04/2012 12:19:09 AM
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Similar experience here...
20/04/2012 07:04:51 PM
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Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 09:30:02 PM
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Re: Yah, I was a bit like your niece
20/04/2012 11:48:12 PM
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Doesn't need to be an extended period of time, though. A few minutes is enough at the beginning.
23/04/2012 12:42:23 PM
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No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 02:29:57 PM
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Re: No problem, if you just want to flush money down a toilet.
23/04/2012 03:32:22 PM
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Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
23/04/2012 04:39:47 PM
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I'm really interested in the evidence for the crawling thing.
25/04/2012 08:11:31 PM
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I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
25/04/2012 09:56:14 PM
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Re: I can't find actual scientific studies on the web
26/04/2012 03:45:40 AM
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anyone who thinks an infant sleeping on its stomach is dangerous is behind the times.
26/04/2012 01:51:59 PM
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If there was a big ad campaign in the UK about this then no-one told my medical team.
26/04/2012 07:40:48 PM
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Hmmm. *shrug* I don't know. I trust this professor to have his facts straight.
26/04/2012 08:01:53 PM
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Possible answer is difference between Scottish and English health systems.
26/04/2012 08:28:38 PM
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weird. maybe trends have swung back the other way.
26/04/2012 10:01:01 PM
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I hope you don't have it mixed up...
26/04/2012 10:18:00 PM
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blagh. maybe I do...I hope not. I hate it when that happens. let me pull out that notebook...
27/04/2012 12:01:47 AM
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Re: Look, it's useless to discuss at this point but let's have the discussion again in 2 years.
26/04/2012 01:39:25 PM
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OH! Another suggestion!
20/04/2012 03:36:45 AM
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I LOVE that book.
23/04/2012 12:44:08 PM
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I...actually had a really long post at one point. I don't know where it went
23/04/2012 02:43:25 PM
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Books by Ruth Brown
20/04/2012 04:26:18 PM
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I loved books like that too. That had little "Easter Eggs" hidden in the pictures ^_^ *NM*
20/04/2012 05:29:50 PM
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