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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh and it's cool that you know "lots" of people that do it. I know two that have died from SIDS (including my sister). It's not worth it. [/quote]

From sleeping in a rock n play?  I'm sorry for your loss, but how old are you?[/quote]

Does it matter (it was 19 years ago). The point is, every advisory says not to sleep in car seat or bouncers for long periods of time and especially not attended (advice is to lay on flat surface). Why do parents insist on advising people to do this? To make it easier? It is not worth it, there are so many other options. [/quote]

There are minimal increased risks with many, many parental decisions.  Guilting parents for these decisions is silly. To cite a common example, a sleep-deprived parent may crash the car.   Almost everyone understands that sleeping on its back with no blankets on a flat surface in the same room but not the same bed is the recommended safest sleep environment.

Like the other PP I am very sorry for your loss.  Your comment is a bit vague about the SIDS deaths - were they (as I suspect) car seat, swing, bouncer deaths?  Or were they actual rock n play deaths, from this specific product?  The reason I ask is because I have googled the hell out of this and have weirdly not found any specific SIDS deaths attributable to RNPs.  On the other hand, many SIDS deaths result in other sleep environments including the recommended one.  There are no guarantees and we have to do the best we can.  My pediatrician says the RNP is safer than a car seat or bouncer.[/quote]

NP. Google RNP and sleep and let me know if you see any doctors that say it's ok. I have and have not found one link hat says unattended sleep in an RNP
Is safe. In fact, every link will advise opposite. If it's easy for you and you're willing to take risks against medical advice but its not good advice to tell a FTM to do it unless you preface it with saying "it's not advised but we do____"[/quote]

?? Where was PP advocating sleeping in rock n plays for 16 hrs a day? She was merely explaining why parents use it, and that we're all doing the best we can.  If baby has acid reflux and screams at being flat on their back being on an incline can sometimes help. I certainly wouldn't use it for a full time sleeping arrangement.  Similarly I had not heard about the rock n play - SIDS connection (although if deaths really are being attributed to the rock n play, that's not really SIDS, right?  SIDS are really unexplained deaths).  I had read about issues with flat spots and other issues with being in a reclined position for a long period of time, and only use it periodically.  [/quote]

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