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According to the study, which was led by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, it found that the number of cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) could be lowered if parents only brought their children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.
Currently, parents are told they should not share their bed if they have been drinking alcohol, taking drugs or if they smoke.
It is estimated that around 120 babies could be saved in the UK every year.
Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open, the research found that 22% of cot death cases occurred when babies were sharing a bed with their parents, and the authors believe 88% of such cases would not have happened if bed sharing had been avoided. It also discovered that breastfed babies under the age of three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a five-fold increased risk of cot death.
The risk associated with bed sharing decreases as babies get older but if either parent was a smoker or the mother had drunk alcohol or used illegal drugs at any time since the child was born, the risk increased significantly.
Lead author of the study, Professor Bob Carpenter, said: "If parents were made aware of the risks of sleeping with their baby, and room sharing was instead promoted in the same way that the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was promoted 20 years ago to advise parents to place their newborn infants to sleep on their backs, we could achieve a substantial reduction in cot death rates in the UK."
(JP/CD)
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'Bed Sharing' Linked To Cot Death Risk
A new study has found that almost half of cot death cases could be prevented if parents stopped sharing their beds with their children.According to the study, which was led by researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, it found that the number of cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) could be lowered if parents only brought their children into their beds for comfort and feeding, but not sleeping.
Currently, parents are told they should not share their bed if they have been drinking alcohol, taking drugs or if they smoke.
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It is estimated that around 120 babies could be saved in the UK every year.
Published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open, the research found that 22% of cot death cases occurred when babies were sharing a bed with their parents, and the authors believe 88% of such cases would not have happened if bed sharing had been avoided. It also discovered that breastfed babies under the age of three months who sleep in their parents' beds face a five-fold increased risk of cot death.
The risk associated with bed sharing decreases as babies get older but if either parent was a smoker or the mother had drunk alcohol or used illegal drugs at any time since the child was born, the risk increased significantly.
Lead author of the study, Professor Bob Carpenter, said: "If parents were made aware of the risks of sleeping with their baby, and room sharing was instead promoted in the same way that the 'Back to Sleep' campaign was promoted 20 years ago to advise parents to place their newborn infants to sleep on their backs, we could achieve a substantial reduction in cot death rates in the UK."
(JP/CD)
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