Unexpected Death In Newborns

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When people become parents, they are in awe of the newborn that is brought into their lives, and being in such bliss they may be unaware of the safety precautions involved with a newborn baby. Too many newborns are dying because parents and caregivers are unknowingly putting them to sleep in unsafe places. Nothing is more important than keeping your newborn safe. Newborns can spend up to 16 hours or more a day sleeping and as a parent or caregiver it is important for your newborns to be put to sleep in a safe environment (Gellar, 2015). This paper describes effective interventions to prevent what parents and caregivers often refer to as “crib death”. Whatever the label is, an infant death is known to be every new parent or caregivers’ worst …show more content…
The terms sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) have been developed to try to group all infant deaths that could possibly be related to an infant’s sleeping environment (Joint Statement, 2012). SIDS is defined as “the sudden death of an infant less than one year of age, which remains unexplained after a thorough investigation, including the performance of a complete autopsy, an examination of the death scene, and a review of the clinical history” (Alberta Health Services, 2015). Since the 1990’s the public health educational effort called “The Back to Sleep Campaign” has been encouraging all parents and caregivers of newborns to put babies on their backs to sleep; since then, there has been a 50% decrease in SIDS in Canada between 1999 to 2008 (Ahlers-Schmidt et al., 2014). Unfortunately, international research shows that SIDS has plateaued in the recent years for sleep-related deaths from causes such as asphyxiation, suffocation, and entrapment (Hauck, 2014 p.458). The known risk factors for these indicating causes are prone sleeping, overheating, unsafe crib environments, and bed sharing. Sadly, there is no guaranteed way to prevent SIDS, but there are many interventions parents and caregivers can take to create a safe sleep environment for their …show more content…
Bed sharing is the sleeping arrangement where the newborn shares the same sleeping surface with another person (Alberta Health Services, 2015). Sharing a bed with a newborn has many potential hazards: the newborn can suffocate or sustain an injury from falling from a high surface (Health Canada, 2015). A newborn can be suffocated when bed sharing by being trapped between objects like pillows or blankets, or by the adult rolling over onto the newborn while still sleeping (Health Canada, 2015). Instead of sharing a bed with your newborn, it is recommended for parents to share a room with your baby. Room sharing means placing your newborn to sleep in a crib that is within arm’s reach of where the caregiver is sleeping (Alberta Health Services, 2015). Room sharing with the newborn is not only an intervention, but it also provides many benefits for the parent or caregiver. For example, it is easier for the parent or caregiver to have close monitoring of the newborn and being in arm’s reach makes for easier feeding when the newborn awakens in the middle of the night (Alberta Health Services, 2015). Research has shown that room sharing is associated with a reduced risk of SIDS, and because of this arrangement it keeps your baby from suffocation, strangulation and entrapment that could occur if the newborn was sleeping in the parents’ or
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