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Not breastfeeding and SIDS

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BerryBGood · 22/08/2010 20:12

Thought this might be of interest to breastfeeders?

analyticalarmadillo.blogspot.com/2010/08/breastfeeding-sids-guilt-at-what-cost.html

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rainbowinthesky · 22/08/2010 20:15

I was a breastfeeder and found it inappropriate to post on mumsnet. Have you read it? I am all for free speech but this is not the place. Please do the decent thing and ask for your thread to be deleted.

StealthPolarBear · 22/08/2010 20:19

I don't think the increased link is news, however it's a very good point about witholding information in the name of not making anyone feel guilty.

FerminaUrbinoDaza · 22/08/2010 20:21

Where I am the link between feeding and SIDS is well know, standard antenatal info. I find it very hard to believe that it isn't widely know in the UK .

What do you hope to achieve with this tread?

Morloth · 22/08/2010 20:22

It is tricky, because I don't want anyone to feel guilty, but women are not stupid, we need the facts not dressed up with pressure or wrapped up in fluffy cotton wool.

Why should the thread be pulled rainbow?

belgo · 22/08/2010 20:23

Why should the thread be pulled?

I don't think the article says anything new. Most of us are aware of a link between SIDS and not breastfeeding; and are also aware that we do all have a right to the most up to date information.

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/08/2010 20:26

I thought that this was well known? - I think it was mentioned in my antenatal class as well - not as a guilt thing, but to make sure that all the facts are known.

The hard fact is that breastfeeding your baby is best for its health in every way - if you don't breastfeed you are putting your baby more at risk in many ways.

However, this does not mean that people who don't breastfeed should be pilloried. You are probably more likely to kill your child putting it into a car...

FerminaUrbinoDaza · 22/08/2010 20:27

Sorry, is this not part of the standard antenatal info in the UK? Seriously?

StealthPolarBear · 22/08/2010 20:29

I think it probably is...the 'benefits' of BF are mentioned lots, I assume this will be one of them, but not 100% sure

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/08/2010 20:29

Fermina I am UK - but it probably depends on where you are, and antenatal classes aren't compulsory - the people who go, are probably those who least need it.

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 22/08/2010 20:30

I'm pretty sure I didn't know this, and I usually remember this sort of thing...

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/08/2010 20:32

Mind you I just asked DP and he didn't know...

I don't think it's as simple as bfing helps against SIDS though - isn't there a lot of research now that shows co-sleeping is very important in regulating the infants breathing when asleep? And a lot of breastfeeders will co-sleep...

FerminaUrbinoDaza · 22/08/2010 20:33

So, it's not part of what the MW covers (like vit K, pain meds in labour, the contraception 'chat')? That's what I meant.

omnishambles · 22/08/2010 20:33

I think this is pretty well known - though the causation isnt as the article points out.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 22/08/2010 20:36

ItsAll - to continue your point..

lots of BFers co-sleep and of those that don't I think more tend to keep their babies in their bedrooms for longer rather than moving them into their own rooms.

Fermina - I don't think it is really pushed. I was aware but that was because I wanted to BF and therefore read up on it.

IMoveTheStars · 22/08/2010 20:37

WHY there is a link between BFing and a lower risk of SIDS isn't clear. If anybody could link any studies into this information I'd be very grateful (as I'm not going to go on evidence from one persons blog)

There's also a link between co-sleeping and higher rate of SIDS, are you going to start a thread on that even though that statistically co-sleeping increased the likelyhood of successful BFing.

I should hide this thread as it upsets me, but I'm interested in how it pans out.

rainbowinthesky · 22/08/2010 20:38

Because surely most people know this already. I am totally for correct information being given but this isnt to answer someones question, it's not to correct a misconception. I thought it was a fairly emotive article mentioning dying quite a lot. I dont get the purpose and think it could upset a lot of people for no real reason.

Morloth · 22/08/2010 20:39

I didn't know about this for DS1 (6 years ago) but had found out about it for DS2. It wasn't mentioned at either ante-natal class.

If you assume that breastfeeding and co-sleeping is the human "norm" then everything we do that isn't that is going to have effects, sometimes negative sometimes positive.

Alibabaandthe40nappies · 22/08/2010 20:40

Jareth I think that if you co-sleep safely - no drinking, smoking, drugs, not overweight, keep the baby out from under the covers etc then there is less risk of SIDS than if you don't co-sleep.

I may have the wrong end of the stick but that's my understanding.

Morloth · 22/08/2010 20:40

So you are basically saying what the article was talking about rainbow that the discussion can't be had because it will upset people?

I am not having a go here, but I don't think there is anything wrong with talking about it.

rainbowinthesky · 22/08/2010 20:43

No, there is nothing wrong in discussing it. Maybe it was the article that I didnt like, don't know really because I have posted here on many occasion to protest at people objecting to facts beign discussed as it might upset people.

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BerryBGood · 22/08/2010 20:59

Heavens sorry I had no idea my post would cause such upset. I was just browsing a few sites and although I haven't posted here for a white still read quite a lot. I had the article open in another window and thought others might be interested. I will know not to next time.

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ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 22/08/2010 21:07

Alibaba that was my understanding - safe co-sleeping helps prevent SIDS. The problem is that in most studies safe/unsafe (e.g. drunk on sofa) co-sleeping is not separated out.

SirBoobAlot · 22/08/2010 21:36

Co-sleeping is normally viewed as risky in my experience because it conjures up someone who is so tired they could sleep where they stand; ie, someone who might roll onto the baby.

But back to the article.

I don't think its surprising, I've heard it before, and seems to be common knowledge in the circle of mums (bottle feeding and breastfeeding) that I know.

pushmepullyou · 22/08/2010 21:43

Standard postnatal advice in my PCT. It was included on an A5 sheet of breast feeding information I was given to take home from hospital with me.

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BerryBGood · 22/08/2010 21:57

Wow my area didn't tell me anything like that, just details of support groups. I didn't think it was widely known but I do live in quite a small town. I wonder if people who say they couldnt be bothered trying breastfeeding know this sort of thing?

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