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tblue37

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Fri Apr-01-05 05:13 PM
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123. Notice, too, that since the "Back to Sleep"

Edited on Fri Apr-01-05 05:29 PM by tblue37

campaign began, the incidence of SIDS in the US has been dramatically reduced--because babies put to sleep on their backs are less likely to die of SIDS. If it were not a real diagnosis, placing babies on their backs for sleep would not have that impact.

http://www.nichd.nih.gov/new/releases/sleep-tenthann.cfm?from=sids
In 1994, the NICHD formed a coalition of national organizations to launch the Back to Sleep campaign. Since the start of the NICHD-led campaign that year, the SIDS rates . . . have declined by about 50 percent. . . .

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