New AAP Policy - Car Seats are NOT for sleeping
The November 2011 issue of Pediatrics publishes a revised and expanded American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on safe sleep. The entire document is attached and includes several mentions of why child restraints do not provide for a safe sleep environment. These include:
- “Sitting devices, such as car safety seats, strollers, swings, infant carriers, and infant slings, are not recommended for routine sleep in the hospital or at home. Infants who are younger than 4 months are particularly at risk, because they might assume positions that can create risk of suffocation or airway obstruction.”
- “Car safety seats and similar products are not stable on a crib mattress or other elevated surfaces.”
- “Diagnosis, management, and other prevention strategies for positional plagiocephaly, such as avoidance of excessive time in car safety seats and changing the infant’s orientation in the crib, are discussed in detail in the recent AAP clinical report on positional skull deformities.
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- “Sitting devices, such as car safety seats, strollers, swings, infant carriers, and infant slings, are not recommended for routine sleep in the hospital or at home. Infants who are younger than 4 months are particularly at risk, because they might assume positions that can create risk of suffocation or airway obstruction.”
- “Car safety seats and similar products are not stable on a crib mattress or other elevated surfaces.”
- “Diagnosis, management, and other prevention strategies for positional plagiocephaly, such as avoidance of excessive time in car safety seats and changing the infant’s orientation in the crib, are discussed in detail in the recent AAP clinical report on positional skull deformities.
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| aap_2011_safe_sleep.pdf |