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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I find interesting is that there is so much fearmongering about RNP and SIDS on this thread and the handful of links on this thread, but I have been unable to find one single SIDS death in it.  Now, I'm sure there probably has been one, since as a PP pointed out, SIDS is actual unexplained death.  But it is noteworthy that none of the articles railing on it can say more than "in theory, this increases the risk of SIDS because of XYZ features, which are not a flat surface."  And yet I can find no documented cases of it where it's easy to find documented SIDS cases for bouncer, swing, carseat, etc.  (Of course, even if there were documented SIDS cases that would not mean an increased risk per se, given that plenty of SIDS deaths occur in cribs.)

PP's pediatrician is right - it is fine for the occasional nap. And it is fine for newborn night sleeping as well.  My pediatrician said that up to about a month, when baby is waking frequently to eat anyway, and parents are typically sleeping close by in the same room, it really is completely fine and preferable to most other alternatives including cosleeping (which is what many others do, who do not otherwise plan to cosleep and thus do not have "safe" cosleeping set up).

When the RNP is arguably NOT fine is when it's used for ALL sleep for months at a time.  That's when you get baby stuck in a particular head position and increased incidence of flat head and torticollis.  Also true for swings, of course.

Both of my babies used Rock N Play for night sleep for the first month or so.  I also use it for night sleep when young baby is congested and sleeping poorly as a result.  I make an effort NOT to put baby in Rock N play during the day when using for night sleep.  Now that DC2 is into bassinet for night sleep, the Rock n play's main use is as a seat at the dinner table or outside the shower while I shower.  And it is a f*ing godsend for those purposes too.

My brother/SIL used RNP for night sleep for months and months and they don't have any issues.  I probably wouldn't have been comfortable with that, but it worked for them.  I believe they observed him a lot for head side preference, etc.

OK, there's my speech - haters gonna hate, I guess.  But this is a great, must-have product in my view.  Most of the people reading this thread are educated enough to know what the sleep recommendation is - so no, I don't feel the need to preface everything with "the recommended sleeping environment is X" before I say "The Rock N play is a f*ing godsend." 
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+1000. The voice of reason arrives on this thread![/quote]

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