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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are practicing safe sleep, SIDS risk is exceptionally low.[/quote]

Yes. People don’t like to admit this because it fees like it places blame on parents who do go through SIDS deaths, but nearly all deaths classified as SIDS are actually either suffocation or positional asphyxiation, due to unsafe sleep practices.  If you’re following all safe sleep guidelines the chances of your baby dying from SIDS are statistically zero.[/quote]

I work in funeral service and this is true.  Many people co-sleep and/or use unsafe positioners, and the baby is fine, but when it goes wrong it is always asphyxiation (unless the baby had a health condition).  [u]Babies don’t just die, unexplained.[/u]

Never co-sleep with an infant.  You aren’t, OP.  Your baby will be fine. Big hugs.[/quote]

You should stick to your expertise. Babies do die for unexplained reasons. That is the LITERAL definition of SIDS. Youre compounding SIDS and SUID. SIDS is unknown cause. SUID has causes like suffocation and positional asphyxiation. SIDS compromises 37% of SUID and a further 35% is labeled as unknown.

[url]https://www.cdc.gov/sids/data.htm[/url] There are risk factors for SIDS. There are risk factors, including environmental, for SUID. There is also not a national/large-scale agreement on how to classify and report SIDS and SUID so the data isnt super reliable when it comes to reporting cause and risk factors.

Im not a huge fan of the way AAP and CDC emphasize unsafe sleeping practices as a major contributor to infant death because its only 1/3 of known causes and not all of those are from bedsharing. Unsafe crib environments can include blankets, stuffies, loose items, padding around the crib, hanging items near the crib, blinds, etc. Strangulation and suffocation do NOT happen in bedsharing environments only.

And for all of the proponents of safe sleep who yell on here about ABCs, SIDS risk is cut by 50% by room sharing.

Smoking (by any caregiver, family member, etc. including mom), premature/low birth weight, and overdressing are suggested risk factors for SIDS. As a reminder, a diagnosis of SIDS is made if the baby’s death remains [u]unexplained[/u] even after a death scene investigation, an autopsy, and a review of the clinical history. Babies who die suddenly but whose causes of death are later explained (infection, brain abnormality, cardiac dysfunction, etc.) are categorized as sudden unexpected death. [/quote]

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