DHHS: National Campaign Promotes Safe Sleep Tips for Babies
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This is a press release from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services:
Public Health officials are reminding parents and caregivers to provide a safe sleeping environment for babies to help reduce the risk of sudden infant death syndrome or SIDS.
October is SIDS Awareness Month and Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS) Maternal, Child & Adolescent Health Programs (MCAH) staff are distributing gift bags for new mothers during the month. The gift bags contain a 100% cotton HALO sleep sack as well as information on safe sleep and tummy time.
DHHS’s Public Health Director Sofia Pereira said, “As parents and caregivers, keeping our children safe and healthy is our top priority. There are concrete steps we can take to reduce risks and prevent SIDs.”
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the following safe sleep tips:
- Place babies on their backs to sleep
- Use a firm sleep surface, such as a mattress, in a safety-approved crib or bassinet, covered only by a fitted sheet
- Share your room with your baby, but not your bed
- Keep soft objects, such as pillows and loose bedding, out of your baby’s sleep area
- Do not allow smoking around your baby.
For more information about safe sleeping, visit cdc.gov/sids/Parents-Caregivers.htm or call MCAH at 707-445-6210.
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Is it me, or is this the definition of nanny state?
If the government would get off our necks and stop trying to inject babies with an MRNA biologicals, where does a civilization go when the people who have historically been elected and appointed for the betterment of society, are at the tip of the spear waging war against us.?
You may not see if in any one example, but you have to be blind, Deaf, and dumb to not recognize what our government is doing in our name.
If you think the supreme Court decision in 1905 gives the government the right to play God, by forced vaccinations, then you may want to look at the other heinous decisions made by that same court.
Forced Sterilization and regressive child labor laws.
We need to put government back into the Genie Bottle.
Or defund the Sons of Bit*hes, and hold them liable for euthanasia.
Kym the photo is a poor example of a safe sleep position. One baby lost to a sleep related incident is one too many. Several thousand babies are still lost each year thank you for helping to spread the word of safe sleep for babies! ❤
Safe sleep ❤
For the love of all thing authoritarian don’t you dare ground your infant in a place of comfort and reassurance by allowing it to sleep next to its mother and father.
1000s of years of co-sleeping suddenly deemed unsafe. First it was only the belly! Now it’s only the back! They don’t know , obviously.
Maybe don’t pressure parents to follow the current suggested vaccine schedule that was composed in the bowels of Hades, which subjects tiny newborns and babies to endless combinations, and rounds of toxic injections up to 20 shots in the first year, all directly linked to sudden death.
It’s much easier to blame the mother for sleeping next to her newborn, which is INSTINCTUAL .
Our disconnect from nature is grotesque.
There are many safe sleeping guidelines that are very valid and even for the parents who do co-sleep there are still considerations to think about. Babies with parents who smoke cigarettes have a much higher rate of issues including death. Sleeping in a recliner with your infant can be extremely deadly. Many babies are lost this way every day. The entire concept that safe sleep is ridiculous is very sad. Public Health and people who care about babies in general have been promoting safe sleep for at least fifty years due to the infant sleep/SIDS death rate. It wasn’t born out of somebody’s tinfoil hat. Safe sleep matters for babies. ❤
Many are lost “this way” (I assume bad sleeping hygiene) every day.
Google says: More than 130 babies die each year as a result of accidents while sharing a bed with their parents, new data has revealed. An average of 133 babies have died each year over the past five years in cases where co-sleeping is a factor, according Department for Education data.Jan 29, 2018
So we are talking less than 1 deaths per day not even 3 per week, is now “many are lost everyday? ”
10 per month in a nation of 328MILLION??
Lord have mercy .
I say we get to solving and creating campaigns for the remaining sudden infant deaths that are due to “unknown causes.”Be that smoking in the home, or (suspect but ignored because the meat lobby owns DHHS) deli meat /bacon consumption by pregnant women.
Campaigning for isolating an infant from their a mother die to infinitesimal smothering risk, is gaslighting, and micromanaging maternal behavior by DHHS.
In a lifetime the exposures that cause cancer, lou gerig’s, dementia, asthma from the fast foods, plastic wrappings, lotions, gas fumes, perfumes, air freshners, candles, wildfire smoke etc are 100,000 times more problematic than what is in an entire lifetime vaccine regime.
Got proof of that bold claim?
I’m not talking about entire lifetime vaccine regime. Nor am I talking about Lou Gehrigs or asthma.
I’m talking about brand new babies and infants getting dosed with a parade of 20 different vaccines before their 1st birthday. Might be some unknowns to getting that many shots.
And a reminder to parents, the vaccine schedule is a suggestion and is not required. Once a child is old enough for day care or school then you can choose to comply with required minimum. No baby has to take every shot that is offered. And yes, you CAN sleep with your baby. Fuck the nanny state.
If you ever sat on the infant death review board. Tried to communicate and support parents who lost a baby in a sleep situation you might understand. Cosleeping in the same room is what considered co-sleeping. You can have the crib right up against you right up against your mattress so that your baby can be really close to you can reach your arm and you can comfort them after you nurse or after you feed them.
Some scientists/ doctors take the view that non drinking, non smoking parents don’t up the risk for babies who are co sleeping significantly. https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2018/05/21/601289695/is-sleeping-with-your-baby-as-dangerous-as-doctors-say
I can’t believe that’s still what public health is recommending. Don’t they follow the science?
Here’s a good article about where the idea that babies need to sleep apart from their parents came from and an overview of the science that supports cosleeping for physical and psychological health.
https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_cosleeping_can_help_you_and_your_baby
It’s government, and apparently church endorsed erosion of the nuclear family, and specifically men telling women how to mother. Great article!
Sit with parents who lost a child because it was smashed between the wall and the mattress. And they lost their baby. How about the baby recently that fell off the bed and fractured his skull. Or the baby that broke his collarbone falling out of bed. Or the little girl that fell off the bed three times in the last week because mom won’t put her bed on the floor. There’s a reason that they encouraged babies to sleep into their own space doesn’t mean lock them away in a room by their selves and never talk to them know it’s co-sleeping, sleeping in the same room near you but with your own space they will sleep much better over their life if you establish good sleep habits when they’re young
Look, the world’s leading researchers in this field generally disagree with you. There are certainly an infinite variety of ways to raise your kids and where you choose to have them sleep as infants is definitely not a make a break factor. As long as you are caring and conscious of their safety and their needs they’ll be fine. But it’s pretty irresponsible for a government entity to be advocating that the only way is the way not indicated by all the modern research into the question
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[I]n order for a harm to occur, it is necessary that someone is in the condition of experiencing that harm. If a potential person, like a fetus and a newborn, does not become an actual person, like you and us, then there is neither an actual nor a future person who can be harmed, which means that there is no harm at all. … In these cases, since non-persons have no moral rights to life, there are no reasons for banning after-birth abortions. … Indeed, however weak the interests of actual people can be, they will always trump the alleged interest of potential people to become actual ones, because this latter interest amounts to zero.
You may find this statement cold, but where’s the flaw in its logic? If the neurally unformed fetus has no moral claims, why isn’t the same true of the neurally unformed newborn?”
https://slate.com/technology/2012/03/after-birth-abortion-the-pro-choice-case-for-infanticide.html