Pacifiers reduce sudden infant deaths: study
Mon Oct 10, 2005 10:08 AM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Infants should be put to sleep on their backs only, not their sides, and pacifiers can be used to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome, U.S. pediatricians said on Monday.

Revised guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics issued on Monday also discourage parents from sleeping with their infants at all, saying babies are safer in their own cribs.

SIDS, the sudden, unexplained death of an infant in the first year of life, is the third leading cause of infant mortality in the United States, causing the deaths of 2,500 infants each year.

Campaigns to encourage parents and other caregivers to put babies to sleep on their backs instead of their tummies slashed the death rates from SIDS, also known as crib death or cot death, in countries such as Britain and the United States in the 1980s and 1990s. The rest


Harassing Breast-Feeding Mothers Could Lead To Fines
Wis. Law Already Protects Mothers
UPDATED: 11:18 am EDT October 10, 2005

MADISON, Wis. -- Asking a breast-feeding mother to cover-up could soon cost people in Wisconsin $200.
A proposed bill by state Sen. Fred Risser would protect mothers who breast-feed in public from being harassed.
Under Wisconsin law it is perfectly legal for a woman to breast-feed her child in a public place.
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