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October is SIDS Awareness Month

Posted on October 4, 2010 by Brian Yalung

SIDS has been known as a key identifier as far as infant deaths are concerned and October has been designated as the month to observe and make people aware of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. SIDS is a case where healthy babies, normally the sleeping children, die with no immediate cause to be found.

This condition is the number one cause for infants from one month to one year of age, with most deaths occurring between two and four months. The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a set of guidelin

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Parents Warned on Baby Sleep Aids

Posted on October 3, 2010 by Brian Yalung

If sleep aids are dangerous for adults then you can just imagine the impact they would have on infants. Such is a concern which has been called upon by Australian governments into making sure that parents are discouraged from using sleep aids.

In fact, 12 deaths have been already reported in the last 13 years. Sleep aids are marketed as a solution to supposedly aids parents in handling their baby problems. The most common type looks like a cushioned mat, with padding to lift the baby’s he

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Safety Sleep Positioners Discouraged

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Anyone knows that babies need certain styles on how to sleep better but if you want some advice, do not use sleep positioners. This was urged by government safety groups where babies can be trapped and suffocate when left unattended.

Baby sleep positioners, a popular product for safety-conscious parents, were supposed to save lives by keeping infants from rolling onto their stomachs. Unfortunately, it seems that they are not doing its actual intent and are causing more of a SIDS-like of a scenario wh

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Free Safe Sleep Baby Shower for Pregnant Women

Posted on September 23, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Expectant moms who may be giving birth this October or May are in for a freebie of sorts with this invitation to a FREE Safe Sleep baby shower sponsored by the Eastern Virginia Perinatal Council.

Free snacks and door prizes await event participants which will be held on October 5 between 1 to 3 pm. The event was organized to educate mothers to learn more about safe sleep for their precious new baby.

The way babies are put to sleep may help reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and o

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iBabyVideo Allows Folks to Monitor their Babies Better

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Brian Yalung

You can even set up iBabyVideo to alert you if the baby moves or cries and you can rewind the video to see what woke your baby up

Whether they are sleeping or not, looking over babies and children today need more than just being there. And in cases where the parents have to be somewhere and leave their toddlers in the hands of other people, the sense of parenthood comes in, always wanting to do what is best.

Hence, thanks to a couple from Lewisville, a new app called the iBabyVideo allows parents to see if their child is sleeping or awake. It can be set up with alerts as well to see if the baby is crying or moves.

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Essentia Launches La-La Natural Crib Mattresses

Posted on August 23, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Essentia announces the release of new patented natural memory foam mattresses called the La-La Natural Crib Mattresses, which should protect babies and kids from harmful chemicals, a healthy green alternative parents can use for cribs.

A typical crib mattress is filled with chemically derived foams, layered together with glue, treated to be water resistant and contain enough fire retardants able to withstand a 2 foot wide blowtorch open flame for 70 seconds, required by government regul

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Never Fall Asleep with your Child on a Sofa

Posted on May 26, 2010 by Brian Yalung

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been a familiar problem for parents sleeping with their kids in bed. And if you think that isn’t enough, it seems that falling asleep on the sofa makes it entirely traumatic as reports bear the growing number of babies dying due to adults falling asleep on a sofa.

The Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID) is a charity that aims to prevent sudden death and promote infant health. The FSID also shared that the safest place for a baby to sleep, for the f

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Milwaukee Sleep Campaign Announced

Posted on December 29, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Are you against co-sleeping? Well if you are and you happen to be in Milwaukee, join their scheduled campaign against co-sleeping. This is a call for parents to avoid sleeping with their babies who may end up suffocating to death as the case was for this 6-week old baby girl who died while sharing the bed with her mother. The mom found her baby dead when she woke up.

This is perhaps any parent’s fear or worst nightmare. At such young stages, babies should indeed be left to their own bed or crib wit

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Good Nite Light

Posted on December 19, 2009 by Brian Yalung

Here is a cool night light to have, especially for the kids. It portrays the moon at night and the sun during the day. It measures only 6” in diameter and can be a perfect gadget to hand out for parents who have babies in their fold. The Good Nite Light retails for $34.99

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The Geeky Way to Rock Babies to Sleep

Posted on August 26, 2009 by Brian Yalung

We all turn to various means of rocking a child’s crib or cradle. But this one has to be the geekiest of them all! Some may call it lazy while others call it ingenious. However you really have to give this guy credit for coming up with this kind of an idea.

And would you believe he even wrote a Linux program to make it work? The program opens and closes the usual CD drive which is tied to a baby car seat. With the repetitive motion, it rocks a baby to sleep without much effort on the part of the dad or maybe even moms.

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