CDC: Too many babies still sleeping with soft blankets

Each year there are about 4,000 infants unexpected sudden deaths in the United States. Nearly a quarter of them are random debt or suffocation during sleep. Despite these impressive figures, more than half of all children are always placed in nurseries with dangerous beds.

Health experts suggest the American Academy of Pediatrics Newborn sleeping in a bed with no loose bedding or soft objects. But a new study by researchers at the National Institute of Health and CDC conducted beats only about 55 percent of parents followed this advice.

The new report, published this week in the journal Pediatrics, suggests that, while the use of soft bedding continues to decline, too many parents mistakes to get the message. Statistics from the National Child Sleep Position Study based showed that bed utilization increased from 86 percent to 55 percent from 1993 to 2010.

However, the researchers say, most of these fall was before 2000, which is located on the effectiveness of the recommendations of the AAP Public declining. The report is an attempt to outreach efforts to revive and to better educate young mothers.

"Babies should sleep on a cushion tested farm with fitted sheet, with no bedding," Shapiro-Mendoza, a senior researcher at the Division of Reproductive Health CDC, said in a press release. "Just as important when you are sleeping child in a crib or bassinet is the child on the back and not sharing a sleep surface with the child. "

The study also found that teenage mothers, as well as African-American and Hispanic mothers were more likely to use the litter box for their young children. Overall, the researchers found that the use of hedges on child above continues to decline, but the use of soft bedding under a sleeping baby was slightly more common in the last decade - suggesting some mothers are always half of the message.

It is not just a lack of information that is the problem, say the authors of the study. The researchers found that over two-thirds of the pictures in magazines targeted young infants pre-sleeping mothers with potentially dangerous beds, including bedding.

"Parents get a lot of mixed messages," said study author Marian Willinger, a SIDS research associate at NIH. "Members can quilts soft duvets or give as gifts for the new baby, and they feel compelled use. Or. Baby pictures Magazine with potentially dangerous bedding "