Up to nine children die from SIDs per day in the United States. One can interpret this as either a positive considering that since there are tens of thousands of babies born each year, statistically the odds of your baby dying from SIDs is very low. Unfortunately, if you are one of those affected, the statistics mean nothing.
Children are generally considered to be at highest risk of dying of SIDs between birth and one year of age. Cases of SIDs have been reported in children as old as two years, but this seems to be rare.
I decided I wasn’t willing to take the risk. A friend of ours had a baby a few months before us. They had looked into the topic of SIDs and found several products that looked promising.
The product I and our friends both settled on is an infant motion monitor. It works by sensing the baby’s smallest movements from breathing and all other body movements. As long as the baby is breathing, it will flash a green light. If it doesn’t detect movement for 20 seconds or if movement slows to less than 10 movements per minute, a loud alarm sounds.
We bought the HiSense BabySense V Infant Movement Monitor from Continue reading ‘Help prevent SIDs with a movement sensor’
I’ve spoken to many parents to say that their child sleeps through the night easily and others who say getting the child to sleep in the first place is next to impossible and getting her to sleep through the night IS impossible.
Since my wife’s sister had a baby 8 months before Alex was born, we had an idea of what to expect. My sister in law and her husband, started out by keeping the baby in their bedroom. Every time the baby would wake up and cry, both of them would get woken up and both would be up until the baby went back to sleep, even though only one of them was actually changing or feeding her.
So, having officially arrived at the hospital on Thursday since we checked in after midnight, we could stay there until at least Sunday and could stay until Monday.
Well, I came home on Wednesday night around 7:30 from a training class I’m taking for work. Wifey was passed out sleeping on the couch. She never takes naps as she hates the groggy feeling she gets after waking up.
While researching how best to care for our new baby, we came across some sites with interesting thoughts on things as mundane as baby wipes. The sites basically advocated using as many natural products as possible and keeping as many chemicals and other artificial products away from your baby as possible.