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A plot of SIDS rate from 1988 to 2006. The Safe to Sleep campaign, formerly known as the Back to Sleep campaign, [1] is an initiative backed by the US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) at the US National Institutes of Health to encourage parents to have their infants sleep on their backs (supine position) to reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS.
Although sleeping in the supine position without sufficient tummy time may change the physical appearance of the head through plagiocephaly and consequently promote developmental delays, [5] [6] [13] [14] regardless of these effects, it is essential that infants are placed to sleep on their back, because of the risk of SIDS.
A Canadian survey found that 39% of respondents preferring the "log" position (lying on one's side with the arms down the side) and 28% preferring to sleep on their side with their legs bent. [1] A Travelodge survey found that 50% of heterosexual British couples prefer sleeping back-to-back, either not touching (27%) or touching (23%).
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Some baby monitors also use a video camera to show pictures on the receiver, either by plugging the receiver into a television or by including a portable LCD screen. This type of surveillance camera is often called a baby cam. Some baby cams can work at night with low light levels. Most video baby monitors today have a night vision feature.
The Safe Side is a series of safety videos and other products, founded in 2005 by Julie Clark, founder of The Baby Einstein Company, & John Walsh, host of America's Most Wanted and co-founder of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Each DVD and CD provides important safety tips.
Randy Gardner (born c. 1946) is an American man from San Diego, California, who once held the record for the longest amount of time a human has gone without sleep.In December 1963/January 1964, 17-year-old Gardner stayed awake for 11 days and 24 minutes (264.4 hours), breaking the previous record of 260 hours held by Tom Rounds.
Attachment parenting is a parenting philosophy characterized by practices such as baby-wearing (carrying infants in slings or holding them frequently), long-term breastfeeding, co-sleeping (sharing the parental bed with the baby), and promptly responding to a baby's cries. [13] Popular sleep training methods, such as the Ferber Method, rely on ...