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72% Reduction in SIDS! Fans Everywhere Are Spinning.

Posted on October 07, 2008

Could it be this simple? Moving air, like from a fan, is all you need to prevent SIDS? When your humble correspondent first started practicing (and I won't give away my mid-40's age) it was almost considered child abuse to let your children sleep on their backs. That was then! A revolution (at least to my memory) began after an Aussie study suggested infants sleeping on their backs had a significantly reduced incidence of SIDS. The fear of a child choking and their inability to clear their throats (while lying on their backs) because of their immature cough reflex, had long been thought to b...

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children , cough , infants , sleep