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Chapter 12: Balancing Safe Sleep and Other Recommendations for Newborns
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Published:January 2020
Ann L. Kellams, MD, IBCLC, FAAP, FABM, 2020. "Balancing Safe Sleep and Other Recommendations for Newborns", Neonatology for Primary Care, Deborah E. Campbell, MD, FAAP
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This chapter highlights the relationships of safe sleep, skin-to-skin contact, and breastfeeding with sudden, unexpected postnatal or infant sleep-related events. The evidence behind recommendations on safe sleep, skin-to-skin contact, and breastfeeding for infants from birth to 6 months is examined in the context of the complex interrelationships of these practices. For example, although it is clear that safe sleep practices play a major role in reducing the risk of sudden unexplained infant death (SUID)1 and that breastfeeding is protective against sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS),2 in a recent nationally representative sample, only 20% of new mothers reported that...
