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Sleep Safety and SIDS Prevention: What Every Parent Needs to Know
SIDS is one of the most feared topics in new parenthood, but being informed is far more powerful than being scared. This post covers the current safe sleep recommendations, common unsafe habits parents fall into out of exhaustion, and practical tips to help your baby sleep safely in those early months.
Pacifiers and Sleep
When pacifiers can start to become problematic is around four months, when your baby is no longer a newborn and they’ve become reliant on the pacifier to sleep and the only way to get them to fall back asleep is reinserting it continually throughout the night. The pacifier replacement game is not a fun one (IYKYK).
Sleep Props
Sleep props aren’t bad and are often essential in those first few months, however as a baby gets closer to four to five months old, they often stop responding as well to the sleep props you’ve been using. That’s when sleep props need to be looked at and either phased out gradually or removed completely to encourage independent sleep.