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I thought that a cot death meant that this remained unexplained. Now a baby monitor reduces cot deaths? I'm really interested to read about that claim.
by antr 11y ago
I thought that a cot death meant that this remained unexplained. Now a baby monitor reduces cot deaths? I'm really interested to read about that claim.
- hessenwolf 11y agoIt remains unexplained but things are correlated with it, and possibly have an unexplained causal effect.
- tptacek 11y agoNo, baby monitors have been studied. It's not a big mystery. Monitoring doesn't make a dent in SIDS. Education does. "Don't put infants to sleep on their stomachs".
- dalke 11y agoThere are side effects of monitoring. "Angelcare voluntarily recalled 600,000 under-mattress sensor pads after two infants died of strangulation when the cord attached to the pad wrapped around their necks" - http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/02/mimo_and_other_smart_baby_monitors_don_t_protect_from_sids_so_what_are_they.html http://www.slate.com/articles/life/family/2014/02/mimo_and_o... Strangulation by baby monitor is correlated with having a baby monitor.