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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To be clear it's 10 deaths since 2015 and all were 3 months and older who could roll over and the restraint was not used. What is a company supposed to do when consumers won't follow directions. 
We used it but only for the first couple months when dd could not roll over or move much. [/quote]

I had a rock n play lent to me used, so there was no way I could follow any directions.

10 deaths in just 4 years is a LOT.  I think the product should probably be recalled[b].  I honestly think that APA should reconsider whether "back to sleep" has caused more infant deaths than it has saved, since so many babies are now killed by unsafe sleeping devices like Nap Nanny and the Rock n Play, or when parents fall asleep holding them[/b].  [/quote]

What???? Human brains are so bad at this.  Far far far less babies die from SIDS and unsafe sleep conditions today than 30 years ago. This has been an incredibly successful public safety campaign. These less safe sleep conditions today are used largely by the most desperate or uninformed of parents (instead of all parents!).

The concept of rolling back back to sleep advice because some parents choose not to follow it is nuts.

And im a pp that uses a rock n play when I'm exhausted with a buckle. Risk assessment is just such a difficult thing for people. All of this is on a macro level. On the micro level the risk is baseline very small because the risk of your baby getting SIDS at all is extremely small. [/quote]

This. All of this. Back to Sleep/Safe to Sleep is one of the most successful public health campaigns of the past 50 years. It changed the major risk factor for SIDS from unsafe sleeping positions to smoking, and brought down the overall deaths dramatically. The U.S. campaign started because of the marked success of similar campaigns in other countries around the world.

The device deaths--which are rare--are not "caused" by back-to-sleep advice; they're caused by people not following it, and specifically, not following it in unsafe ways (e.g., opting for another device and then not following the instructions). That's always going to be an issue, whatever "official" guidance people get.[/quote]

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