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SIDS and safe t sleep – cruelty out of love? March 7, 2009

Posted by Megan in Belief in Baby’s Crys: Cry It Out/Controlled Cry, Beware the Baby Trainers, Marketing: Formula/Baby Apparel, Sleep issues: SIDS.
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 In writing this post I need you to visit the Safe T Sleep  web site to see the photos for readers who do not know what this product is.

Often in other posts I have liked the correlation that Keith Sawyer (page 16 of PDF for photo) likened wrapping to the strapping down of patients be it hospital or institute.

Both web sites really need to be seen for the photos before you can understand what my view points are. 

So the scoop is that SIDS NZ and Safe T Sleep® Partnership Announced

 

I have three issues with this ’scoop’

  1. SIDS NZ aligning themselves with marketing buying a product and the idea that something needs to be brought to keep children safe rather than parenting.
  2. If we follow SIDS guidelines from round the world and sleep with our babies with in arms reach i.e. a co-sleeper cot, the basinet…for goodness sake a banana box….the SIDS rates drop dramatically. Look at other co-sleeping countries like Sweden, Japan, Hong Kong.
  3. With this product I can see children being strapped down crying no matter what age…a tool to hold a child down.

 

My question is how often when it comes to our children do we do something out of love when in fact if we really look at the situation is quite cruel.

Yes this product might keep a child safe on its back and might ease a parents mind but what are we really allowing our selves by using this product to do to our children?

Young infants are often wrapped as we believe that they like the tight sensation. Often as parents who are frustrated with their children not keeping still, they will use this wrap as a way to keep their children in one place. I have written about wrapping before in this post wrapping baby to sleep

 

So is this Safe t sleep just another way to keep our children in place.

My personal thought is ‘wow even worse crying my self to sleep and not being able to move…new born to the ripe old age of 3′….3 years old now that is cruel. …what about toileting, what about needing to lay in a different position, what about bed sores….and I’m sure there are many other mental problems on top of the physical gained by using this ‘product’.