“Back to Sleep”
The “Back to Sleep” campaign began in about 1992. It encouraged pediatricians to get parents to put their babies to sleep face up, following evidence that countries where babies primarily slept on their backs had a far lower incidence of SIDS. Before the start of the campaign, about 25 percent of babies were put to sleep on their back; since then, this has risen to about 76 percent, with a simultaneous decrease in SIDS deaths in the United States from five thousand each year to fewer than three thousand each year. A pretty tremendous difference that costs absolutely nothing.
The reasons why sleeping face down makes such a difference are still unclear. It probably has to do with breathing patterns during sleep, since SIDS occurs only during sleep. It may also correspond to deeper sleeping patterns while face down (and hence greater difficulty in arousing) or inability to roll out of a face down position when the nose and mouth are buried deep in the mattress.
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