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SIDS or sudden infant death syndrome is
the leading cause of death among babies
between one month and one year of age
and it can happen to healthy infants
yeah while it is still unknown what the
exact cause is there are several things
that you can do to prevent SIDS and here
to explain is Jill Lucas Drake furred a
Karelian children's safe kids
coordinator now we say prevent but this
is like what you can do - I mean is it
is it truly preventing well or is it
making your chances higher of your child
making it well we can prevent a lot of
the deaths so about 80 to 90 percent we
can't prevent now okay
since still does exist there's a
brainstem abnormality and that happens
in children and infants that we can't
not predict that yet
so there is sometimes if that baby is
sleeping in that perfect safe sleep
environment sometimes they unfortunately
will just stop breathing okay and so but
there is something that we can do
absolutely okay yeah so many things that
we can do now that we want to talk about
okay let's talk about though this is the
unsafe sleep environment okay yeah
example what not to do absolutely okay
this is what we see in the magazines and
the commercials and most homes and when
we go to the stores to buy everything it
all comes together but in a safe sleep
environment there should be absolutely
nothing so you don't want any blankets
you don't want any pillows you don't
want any stuffed animals or anything
like that so all of these things really
need to come out okay can't do this real
gracefully but anyways a toss it all and
it's ready to toss it all out okay the
other thing that we know is that babies
who overheat have increased chances of
dying from SIDS okay so and one of the
things we don't ever want to have on a
baby when they go to sleep is a hat
because we help ourselves course
tempered body temperatures off through
the tops of our heads so we want to take
that hat off and then also it's
something that can just get over once
they start to move their head it's
something that they can get over their
face and they can't breathe so we want
to take that out yeah so when that baby
sleeps in that safe sleep environment it
needs to be a crib or a bassinet that is
completely bare okay
talk about the crib too so I'm sorry
that yeah the baby crib so if you have a
crib that MIT was maybe passed down from
generation to generation and if it has a
drop side we can no longer use those
because babies become entrapped in the
drop sides right so the crash
toss that yes so the crib has to have
all four sides that screw together or
bolt together now the mattress can drop
it'll raise and lower so when the babies
are younger you can have them on that
upper level but once they start to roll
over and push themselves up you need to
move that mattress down so yes good to
know oh yeah so a safe pack and play no
yeah no bumper pads or anything yeah
yeah no bumper pads it has to be
completely bare let's talk about the car
seat yeah yeah what do we yeah I know
you're like why do I have the car
hearings that are like unsafe in the car
seat as well right right okay so we
don't want to add anything to the car
seat but the reason we have it here
today is the American Academy of
Pediatrics also says babies should never
be left to sleep in car seats swings
infant carriers bouncy seat oh nothing
like that I did that I know that's one
of us did so what haze again they get
themselves in a compromising position
and they can get up against the side of
the car seat they can get themselves
entangled in the harness straps and they
strangle or suffocate in the car seats
now if your baby happens to fall asleep
in there and you're traveling that's
perfectly fine but as soon as you get to
your final destination
maybe you take them yes yeah and then
the other thing every single time you
take them out they have to be flat on
their back so that's the number one
thing that prevents is is placing your
baby on their back every single time
they sleep whether it's nap time or
night time okay I always have to be
placed on their back so when we have
them in those car seats and the bouncy
seats in the swings their body is kind
of always in this position as well and
that's just not good for normal growth
and development and they stay on those
things all day long they go from one to
the next to the narrator right and again
it compresses their body so again they
need to be laid flat on their back in
that crib on a nice firm mattress that
has nothing added to it we love as
adults to make things a really
comfortable memory foam or the pillowtop
is great babies have to have that firms
like safe sleep surface so they don't
get nestled down into it they don't need
a tempur-pedic all right what about the
boppie is there any danger with the
Bosto the bobbies are great to utilize
like if you're gonna be breastfeeding
and I know we're gonna you guys are
gonna be talking about that pretty soon
but again don't prop the baby up on it
and let them rest or sleep on it because
they can get their hands and get into it
get underneath it so getting underneath
a poppy covers those types of things
those are Suffocation's and that's what
we have found the majority of those SIDS
deaths are there so I'm strangulations a
sceptic
and those are the things that we can
prevent you can hate it in 90% yeah
there you go and you have classes and
all sorts of information on your
websites we do Kirlian clinic org slash
calendar
you also can call that 800 number Jill
thank you so much great information you