trish_448 asked:
I dont understand how laying you infant on a soft blanket or comforter could cause your baby to get SIDS..How does that possibly cause that to happen?
I dont understand how laying you infant on a soft blanket or comforter could cause your baby to get SIDS..How does that possibly cause that to happen?
Tags: Comforter, Soft Blanket
If placed on their bellies, they can’t roll over or move their heads if the blanket gets bunched up and they then can’t breathe.
The blanket or comforter could become wrapped around the child or disrupt the air flow around the child which is believed to cause SIDS. Same reason they dont reccomend the use of crib bumpers anymore unless they are placed below the matress.
I’m not sure they really know why, but they have found that babies who lie on their backs have a lower incidence of SIDS than babies who lie on their sides or their tummies. I suspect it’s not the blanket or comforter, but rather the position that makes the difference.
It’s more of the position that your child is laying opposed to the material. Children who sleep on their stomachs are more likely to inhale their exhaled carbon dioxide because they are unable to roll over or unbury their face if it is bunched up in a blanket.
If the baby should get turned around with its mouth close to the comforter or blanket -the child may not be able to breathe as well as necessary.
If they roll over and their face happens to press against the blanket.
If they can’t breath, it’s called suffocation…SIDS, is just Sudden Infant Death Syndrome….it’s caused from a number of things…
It’s a problem when they’re at that stage where they’re still mastering the art of rolling over. They’ll manage to get from their back to their tummy, but then an arm can get in the way, and they can’t roll back over. They can suffocate because they also don’t have the strength to turn their heads.
What Lisa said.
It’s also why you don’t put stuffed animals or pillows in with infants- even when they roll over- because they could smother. Crib bumpers also need to go when baby starts rolling over because at that point they are an entrapment hazard and can smother your child.
If you lay the baby on their stomach before they can roll over or have good control over their heads they can possible suffocate on the blankets. I think there is also some question that they might be breathing more carbon dioxide than oxygen. No one really know what causes SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). They just use statistics from babies who have died to try to prevent it in the future. They are now saying that you need to have a fan blowing in the baby’s room. Apparently statistics show that babies were more likely to die from SIDS if there was no fan compared to babies who had fans in the room. There is no guarantee that doing any of these things will prevent SIDS, but we all want to reduce the risks as much as we can.