Regarding SID, the advice is that you shouldn't move your baby to its nursery until it is 6 mths old - why?

Question

If you have a monitor you can hear any problems so what difference does it make having the baby in the same room?

Answer 1

Because the monitor works the wrong way. The baby needs to be near you to hear and preferably also feel you breathing in order to learn to regulate her/his breathing. Furthermore, babies who sleep near their parents sleep less deeply, wake more often, and nurse more often during the night--all of which are protective against SIDS. If you switch the two sides of the monitor you will get some of the benefits of sleeping in the same room.

In addition to having baby in the same room (preferably same bed--see sources section below) as you, some things that can reduce the risk of SIDS are breastfeeding, putting baby to sleep on her/his back, not allowing your baby to have any contact with smokers or tobacco smoke, and not using a pacifier. Recent research showed that babies who get a pacifier are more likely to die of SIDS on the night when they don't get one. Since everyone will occasionally break or lose the last one right before bedtime, it's safer not to start!

As far as I know, having baby near you neither increases nor decreases the risk of suffocation--which is a *different* condition from SIDS.

And, by the way, having baby in your room (and preferably in your bed) can also save her/his life in case of fire--where you may not be able to run across the hall and *maybe* not even across the room.

Answer 2

It is probably due to the fact that 90 percent of SIDS related deaths happen by 6 months. Also when you move your baby to its nursery, there are an increased risk of SIDS because it will be around things that can suffocate your baby such as a soft pillow, extra blanket, etc. Having a monitor does not help with SIDS (hence the name, sudden infant death syndrome), and having that idea in your mind can dangerous. With so much study in SIDS, there is still so little that we know, that we can only reduce the risk of it from happening. Putting the baby to sleep on its back, breastfeeding, and using firm mattress are one of the things you can do.

Answer 3

My daughter went in her own room after 2 months, with monitors, including those with video, there is no longer a need to be right there.
If you are worried about suffocation then being three feet away or accross the hall wont make a blind bit of difference.

SIDS all the research suggests that most SIDS cases are actually death by misadventure, we just don't want to upset the parents.

Keep baby at the right temperature, never measure how hot he/she is by feeling hands/feet as they are almost always cold.

Give her a pacifier, this reduces the likelyhood of SIDS, but you have to let her keep it until she is 12 months

Don't get drunk and have her in bed with you

Don't smoke

Don't have him in bed with you if you are a heavy sleeper

Don't have him in bed with you at all, it's not wrth it for the huge effort to get him to sleep on his own later.

Don't do drugs

Baby will be fine!

Answer 4

If baby is close to you, there are many benefits to the baby.

If baby can hear your breathing, this acts as a pacemaker for baby - meaning that if baby stops breathing but continues to hear your breathing, may be stimulated into breathing once more. (this is guessed to be one of the reasons for SIDS - baby forgets to breathe).

Also, if you are that much closer to baby, then your sleeping pattern will be lighter, and no matter what, you will be more able to hear what baby is doing and if something happens. You also have the advantage of being able to respond to baby's needs much faster when baby is in the same room with you, than if baby is in his own room down the hall.

Heck, I still sleep with my 11 month old, what do I know? I think it's great.

Answer 5

regardless of what they "say", any good parent would keep the baby in their room with them anyway. I remember checking my baby at least 4 times a night when he was newborn, just to be sure he was breathing and that he was ok, and I still do it, just not as often. Besides that if a baby is going to suffocate, how can you possibly hear that on a baby monitor? To be able to wake up and just look, that is reasuring.

Answer 6

It doesn't matter. My buddy and his wife just lost their 3 month old baby girl to SIDS. She was in a cradle on her back, right next to their bed. She just quit breathing and turned blue. They never noticed until morning. It was a real tragedy. She had just had a round of immunizations the day before. (5 shots for 8 different dieases) They think that had something to do with it.

Answer 7

The baby can hear you is the difference. The baby is used to hearing noises and listening to your heartbeat while in the womb. Also you can pick up on sounds the baby makes that might not register on a monitor

Answer 8

SIDS used to be called "crib death" for a reason. When cribs were new, it was plain to see that babies who slept in them had a strange habit, at times, of simply dying in their sleep. One theory is that the mother wasn't in the room to instinctively wake and check on baby, disturbing him and inadvertantly avoiding a situation where baby may die. Another theory is that baby may somehow depend on the parents' nearness in order to keep breathing. One is that babies who sleep in their parents' bedroom tend to get breastfed longer, and breastfeeding may provide important nutrition, immune defense, and hormone balances, to prevent sudden death.

Co-sleeping (with a sober parent, who does not take sleep aids, on a relatively firm mattress) is considered the best preventative for SIDS. Babies are far more likely to die of SIDS than they are to die of being suffocated in a regular bed. For parents who do drink, take sleep aids, or other things, a co-sleeping crib that attaches to the bed, or an Amby baby nest, are the next best things.

A baby monitor may make Mom feel better, and having baby in the next room may help her sleep better, but it will not take the place of whatever it is about Mom's nearness that seems to be our best defense against sudden infant death.

Answer 9

i've never heard of that. most parents keep the baby in the room with them for a while because it make things easier, but there;s nothing wrong with putting the baby in their own room. some even say that co-sleeping is more dangerous. (higher risk of sids or suffocation)

Answer 10

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