Reducing the risk of cot death.

Credibility gap? Parents' beliefs about reducing the risk of cot death.

This paper reports on findings from a survey of awareness and credibility of risk factors for sudden infant death and adherence to infant care advice, conducted with 506 mothers of children aged from six months to three years in England in 2007. The survey confirmed that many parents failed to follow recommended infant care practices to reduce the risk of cot death, such as supine sleeping and ...

Risk factors for cot death increase danger from infection.

Reducing the risk of sudden infant death.

The term SIDS or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, is used when a baby dies suddenly, without warning, while they are asleep and where the baby's death remains unexplained after an investigation of the circumstances of death, a complete autopsy and a review of the baby's clinical history. When no cause is found for the death, it is called SIDS. Between 1985 and 2005, deaths from SIDS in Australia h...

Infanticide, filicide, and cot death.

The 'suppression' of unwanted babies seems to have been commonplace in antiquity. Early travellers to New Zealand, while remarking on how fond the Maoris were of their children and how well they looked after them, noted that infanticide was openly practised. The most favoured methods were squeezing the nose between the fingers, pressing the fontanel, or putting a wet cloth over the baby's head-...

Infanticide, filicide, and cot death

The 'suppression' of unwanted babies seems to have been commonplace in antiquity. Early travellers to New Zealand, while remarking on how fond the Maoris were of their children and how well they looked after them, noted that infanticide was openly practised. The most favoured methods were squeezing the nose between the fingers, pressing the fontanel, or putting a wet cloth over the baby's head-...