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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]32 deaths in 10 years? How does it compare to SIDS rate generally over the same time? There is no way to evaluate the number 32 without a comparator.[/quote]

They weren't sids deaths. All those infants were over 3 months, not restrained and rolled over and suffocated. Horrible but not sids.  [/quote]

THIS is not true. The deaths were for two reasons - infants over 3 months who rolled over, AND younger newborns who suffocated due to positional asphyxiation. The latter is what's being ignored on this thread and many other places, and that's perhaps the most dangerous part.[/quote]

No one has provided evidence of the latter. The former is the subject of the news article last week which is the first definitive information about RnP safety I have ever seen. [/quote]

Read: https://www.consumerreports.org/recalls/fisher-price-rock-n-play-sleeper-should-be-recalled-consumer-reports-says [/quote]

There is not concrete unbiased information in that report. CR acknowledges that 'some' of the 22 (32-10) are accounted for by underlying medical conditions. There is a discrepancy in the death of a five month old where the death certificate says they were not restrained and the parent says they are.

How many infants have died in cribs since 2009? This article is an example of what I hate most about modern parenting culture. It is full of dramatic scare tactics like, 'if you as a parent put your child in that there is an increased risk of death.' Which ok, lets call that true. There have been approximately 36 million babies born in the US since 2009. I have yet to meet a parent that doesn't have an at least occasionally use an RnP but lets say 25% of babies sleep at some point in an RnP. 9 million babies in the Rock n Play. That means there is a .00000355% chance that a baby will die in a Rock N Play.

To me, if parents are having an extremely hard time getting any sleep, an increase from 0 to .00000355% seems reasonable. But of course if you frame it as, if you use an RnP you increase your child's risk of death, it sounds exponentially more terrifying. Relative risk is completely absent from these conversations. [/quote]

This exactly.  Add to that that AAP’s completely risk adverse stance on sleep (and other topics), and lack of available data about relative risk from other products, like car seats, and you have borderline fear mongering about the RNP.

I’m not judging any parent who declines to use a RNP for this or any other reason. But I’m also not judging parents who continue to use it, as we are doing. [/quote]

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