Comment by rossant
2 years ago
A tiny selection of the relevant literature:
[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/(SICI)1099-0...
[2] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1440-1754....
[3] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12024-014-9600-5
[4] https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/143/5/e20183...
These do bolster my point but it becomes more striking in resources intended for parents where one minute they’re telling you the mechanism of SIDS is poorly understood and the next they’re giving you advice that is clearly about removing suffocation risks from the sleeping environment. Though there is similarly strange advice about “preventing shaken baby syndrome” which turns out to be just anger management tips. I guess the sensitive nature of the topic makes frank discussion difficult.