Ask the Pediatrician: What should new parents know about safe sleep?
Q: I'm concerned about SIDS. What can I do to keep my baby as safe as possible while she's sleeping?
Jul 18, 2022
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Q: I'm concerned about SIDS. What can I do to keep my baby as safe as possible while she's sleeping?
Jul 18, 2022
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Cigarette smoking among drug dependent pregnant women is alarmingly high, estimated at 77 to 99%. Programs that treat pregnant patients for substance use disorders often fail to address cigarette smoking despite the clear ...
Jun 21, 2012
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Imagine you're lounging comfortably at home, watching TV, when a car ad comes up showing a vehicle traveling at high speed on a windy road. Inside, an infant is shown in a baby seat that… isn't secured. How would that commercial ...
Nov 3, 2023
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When putting baby to bed, skip the cozy comforters, stuffed animals and pillows.
Sep 19, 2022
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Since 1992, the government's Back-to-Sleep Campaign has encouraged parents to place infants on their backs to sleep. Still, more than 4,500 infants die unexpectedly during sleep each year in the United States. Now, a University ...
Apr 19, 2012
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(HealthDay)—Stillbirths have eclipsed infant deaths for the first time in the United States, according to new research published in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's July 23 National Vital Statistics ...
Jul 24, 2015
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Whenever a healthy infant dies suddenly, that death should be investigated to determine if abuse or neglect was the cause.
Aug 27, 2019
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Hundreds of thousands of Fisher-Price 4-in-1 Rock 'n Glide Soothers and 2-in-1 Soothe 'n Play Gliders sold in the United States and Canada have been recalled after four U.S. infants died of suffocation.
Jun 7, 2021
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Karin B. Nelson, M.D., scientist emeritus at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and her colleagues from the University of Sydney, the University ...
Sep 9, 2013
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Wearable devices for infants offer to give parents peace of mind, but are they being lulled into a false sense of security, asks an article in the BMJ this week?
Nov 18, 2014
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