A “note” on safer childrearing practices, off of the Front Page Sections, translated…
There came the unfortunate news of a young male infant’s death in a nursing center recently. It’d reminded me of an unforgettable seminar that I went to.
The discussion forum was on infants and their sleep. A nurse shared with the audience the experience of an older mother, she’d, slowly started, “I hope that everybody can attentive to your own infants positions of sleep, and check on them often. This mom told me that her last child suffocated to death, as he’d, learned to flip himself over on the beds, went to become an angel. Back then, the mother didn’t know that having the baby sleeping on his side can cause dangers, and as young as infants are, their necks weren’t strong enough, it would be quite easy, for them to suffocate to death. She was truly regretful, that she’d not paid enough attention to the position which her young son was sleeping with………” Everybody was shocked, and we all felt saddened, by her real-life tale. All the babies are their parents’ most cherished treasures.
the RIGHT way…
The Pediatric Association of Taiwan took the advice from the American Pediatrician Association’s guidelines, “for infants under one year of age, every time, they should be on their backs when they sleep.”, as a preventative measure of the causes of sudden infant death syndrome. Especially in the winter season, there had been many news on how babies died in their sleep, reason being they weren’t sleeping on their backs, choking on the formulas, suffocated by the quilt. There were a lot of childrearing books that to the parents, on how when babies sleep on their front sides, it would be like they’re sleeping on the parents’ chests, it’d given them more sense of security, or how the children who sleep on their tummies can have a better head shape, that it wouldn’t cause their heads to be flattened; but, the babies sleeping on their abdomens IS a primary cause of sudden infant death! And, having the quilt over them too high is also, dangerous, currently, there are, rarely any cribs that are designed to let the air flow freely, and the parents must be extremely tentative when taking care of their young! Because for very young infants, they’re, too fragile, even if they’re asleep, the parents needed to check on them often.
And, if you find that your babies who usually cry for a very long time suddenly quiet down, you must have that sense of alert. The first-time parents need to check their young often, to make sure their children are breathing right. Some of the parents, in order to prevent the infants from barfing out the formulas, they’d put their child on their sides to sleep, because as soon as the infant wakes and starts to cry, it’s quite easy, for her/him to get on front ventral sides, and they can, easily suffocate. So, the right way to sleep for an infant is on her/his back, and, even if the infant barfed, the milk is liquid, and, there’s, little to no chance that the formula will get stuck in the throats and block the airways.
and this, would be, the WRONG way!
There may be the methods which worked for the older generations in caretaking, some may be more convenient to the caretakers, or more efficient, but mostly, they’re, not tested to be safe, and it’d, put the infants in grave danger. Like the infants who sleep on their abdomen would feel more secure, actually, the American and Taiwanese Pediatric Associations both suggested that children under one year of age need to sleep on their backs, and, all of these data had been prove, through the countless data that were already, analyzed, that, is the way, to make sure your own children grow up safe and sound.
And so, there are, so many ways that infants are not sleeping safe, and, they’re usually due to the beliefs of the older generations, and, the older generations are, sometimes, just too stubborn in their beliefs about childrearing, they’d, failed to realize, that there are, so many dangers that an infant can be in, and that their former ways of raising their own young may have worked for them, but it doesn’t work now!