CKNW, (July 06, 2005).
VICTORIA(CKNW/AM980) - Some advice to parents
of infants from the BC Coroners Service today: Don't sleep
with your babies and make sure they sleep on their backs.
Coroner Colin Harris has just issued a report that found
unsafe sleep practices were linked to the deaths of 25
babies in BC during an 18 month period beginning in
January 2003.
Harris says infants should not sleep on soft surfaces or
with their parents and they should be supine rather than
prone.
"So that they're not find themselves in a situation where
they're rebreathing their own carbon dioxide and with
infants what you have to remember is that when they're
very small and they have very little neck control in their
muscles with their head and if they find themselves in a
compromised position they're not always able to free their
airway."
And Harris says cribs should be free of bumpers, quilts
and comforters.
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CBC News, (July 6 2005).
A new report by the B.C. Coroner's office says putting babies
to sleep on adult beds and couches is the leading cause of
infant sleep-related death in this province. Coroner Colin Harris, who headed the study into the deaths
of 47 babies, says more than 40 per cent of the sleep-related
deaths were cases where the infants were not sleeping in cribs.
Harris says more education about safe sleeping practices is
needed reduce the number of unnecessary infant deaths in
B.C. The study was carried out between January 2003 and
June 2004.
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