SIDS Persists Despite Recommendations For Safer Sleeping

About 4,000 babies die in their sleep each year from due to suffocation and strangulation despite recommendations by the American Academy of Pediatrics that infants always be placed on their backs to sleep and that they share a room with parents but not a be According to the study, these deaths from SIDS or SUID (sudden unexpected infant death) are seen more often among black families. "We found that many infants are not placed to sleep on the back, and many still routinely share a bed during sleep," said lead author Eve Colson, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Yale School of Medicine. read more

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