Child sleep
It is normal for the mother to watch her sleeping baby from time to time to make sure he is okay, especially if the child is her first baby. There are many mothers who are unaware of the correct position of a child’s sleep. Knowing the appropriate position for sleep is important to avoid Sudden Sudden Death in Infancy (SUDI), as well as to avoid other sleep problems that a child may experience.
Sudden death factors for SUDI
Some research has been conducted on the sudden death of the child in some countries of the world, and has been detected some factors that may lead to this unfortunate thing for the child, and these factors apply to most cases of sudden death of children, and these factors:
- Sleep the baby on his stomach and side.
- The child sleeps on soft surfaces such as mattresses, water mattresses, wool wool, wool and soft bedding, whether in the presence of the mother or father or not.
- Cover the child’s face and head with the lid, which may lead to choking incidents, and the temperature rise dramatically.
- Smoking during pregnancy and after childbirth.
The correct way to sleep a child
- Putting the child on his back when sleeping: This situation is the most safe and healthy position of the child. The mother may be concerned that the child may become suffocated due to vomiting that may come out of his mouth, but not to worry; healthy children who sleep on their backs are less likely to suffocate during their sleep Of children who sleep on their stomachs or on their side. If the child starts to turn on his own – which usually happens for children aged four months – the mother should return the child to sleep on his back whenever it fluctuates.
- Make sure that the child can not move the cover over his face and head during sleep: by installing the cover from the sides, or placing the child in the sleeping bag for children, preferably without the cover of the head cover, it is the safest.
- Avoid smoking: There is much evidence to suggest that the exposure of the child to cigarette smoke, or smoking during pregnancy increases the child’s death rate of surprise at sleep, and this effect is strong even when parents smoke away from the child.
- Share the room with the child: any child must sleep with his parents in the same room especially the first six months to a full year.
- Breastfeeding naturally when possible: Breastfeeding reduces the risk of sudden death due to sleep by more than half.
- Avoid the use of soft toys, pillows, bumper, and tails: Children can be suffocated even when they are left in cuddly cots, even when covered with large nests, when soft toys are placed near them;