Newborn dies after sleeping in similar mattress as mother and father

Tuesday (June 20) was a really unhappy day for the mother and father of a new child – simply 36 days outdated – who died after sleeping in the identical mattress as her mother and father the earlier evening.

The Straits Times says that the child’s mother and father determined to let her sleep with them as a result of it was simpler to feed her that method.

In the morning, the baby’s father reportedly felt one thing was not fairly proper, and seen his daughter had stopped respiratory.

Her mother and father rushed their child to KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, however it was too late. The child was pronounced lifeless on the hospital, says the Straits Times.

Police are reportedly nonetheless investigating the child’s demise.

Co-sleeping: The do’s and the don’ts

Having your child sleep with you possibly can definitely provide sleep-deprived mother and father much-needed respite. Proponents of co-sleeping additionally level out the advantages of this apply, together with ease of nursing within the evening and an enhanced sense of safety for the child.

However, as with all issues baby-related, their are clear-cut guidelines on the subject of co-sleeping too, to make sure the security of the child.

While some specialists are utterly towards infants sleeping with their mother and father, on the claims that an grownup can simply roll on a small youngster and suffocate them (this danger is current with bedding too), others advise that you just proceed with warning.

Here are some security ideas from Dr. James McKenna, anthropologist, Director of the Center for Behavioral Studies of Mother-Infant Sleep, Notre Dame University and creator of Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Cosleeping. 

His first spot of advise is expounded to the ‘superb’ co-sleeping household: sober, non-obese, non-smoking and breastfeeding. Dr. McKenna additionally advises that one of the simplest ways to co-sleep together with your baby is on the ground, on a mattress in the midst of the room.

Other than this:

• Ensure that the headboard and footboard of your mattress are tightly fitted in to the body, so your child can’t develop into wedged in a niche.
• Think about putting in a bedrail, so your youngster can’t fall off your mattress.
• Never go away a child alone in an grownup mattress.
• Avoid co-sleeping with newborns.
• No water beds, fluffy pillows or thick bedding that may enhance the chance of suffocation.
• Ensure the temperature within the room isn’t too heat. Overheating generally is a danger issue for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
• Babies ought to all the time be positioned on their again to sleep.
• Never bedshare if there’s one other youngster, or pet in your mattress.

We at theAsianparent are extraordinarily sorry for the lack of this little life. Parents, do use this unhappy story as a cautionary story. Practice secure co-sleeping all the time and remind your mates who’re new mother and father to do the identical. 

Republished with permission from: theAsianParent Singapore

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