You can fuss about me all you want on my FB page. I DON'T CARE! WE HAVE ANOTHER DEAD BABY FROM CO-SLEEPING!Police investigating Milwaukee's 10th unsafe sleep death this year
By of the Journal Sentinel
An infant was found dead Friday morning after spending the night sleeping with an adult, according to police.The baby is at least the 10th Milwaukee infant to die this year while in an unsafe sleep environment. Seven of those deaths occurred while the infant was sleeping with an adult or another child.Two babies died after being placed on an unsafe surface or in an unsafe position.Another died while sleeping with his sister and his grandmother, Lisa Humphrey, who has been charged with giving the infant a mixture of morphine and oxycodone.Two of the co-sleeping deaths have occurred since Nov. 9, when city officials vowed to reduce Milwaukee's infant mortality rate by 10%.Officials also unveiled what has since become a controversial advertisment campaign that pictures a baby sleeping in an adult bed, a large knife tucked in the covers nearby."Your baby sleeping with you can be just as dangerous," the ad says.The American Academy of Pediatrics says the safest way for babies to sleep is alone, on their backs, in a crib free of pillows, blankets, toys and other soft objects.
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Tell me what to do. Tell me how to fix this epidemic. IT IS MAKING ME SICK!
No more lost babies. No more lost futures. No more broken hearts. No more Empty Cradles.
Yeah, but they didn't die of SIDS!
ReplyDeleteSorry, I don't mean to make light of it.
I don't know if the greater tragedy is the baby deaths, or the level of stupidity of so many.
Ten, that is absurd.
Do you know if there's any way to find out the number of SIDS deaths in the area?
Are you the FireWife who also posted about the FD helping set up safe sleeping areas in homes w/ infants?
ReplyDeleteIs it an income thing? Like larger numbers of families can't afford cribs & such? Maybe it's not always a lack of education but a lack of ability to do so? Are there local programs to provide? If so, could more be done to advertise those programs?
Just trying to brainstorm solutions, like you asked! Finding the root cause is the first step. Agencies (be it police, social services, whomever) need to be doing detailed interviews with victims' families to find out WHY. Until you know WHY you'll never find a real solution.
And yes, I know you're getting blasted with people who are touting it as safe, and whatever, but do they live in your area? Because it seems right now Milwaukee is faced with an epidemic, but has done a pretty good job of getting the info out there, so while ignorance may be claimed in a lot of other cases, it seems hard to believe that would be the case in your area. At least for all, or even the majority, of them.
ReplyDeleteSo for your cause I would try to ignore the web-based frenzy, and focus on local efforts, local cause, local WHY. Once that gets figured out, it can spread outward.
This happened to people we know. My husband would never let us co-sleep with a baby, just based on that.
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