| Air Flow Mattress - An air flow mattress can be a crucial part of safeguarding your baby. Essentially, an air flow mattress is an air mattress designed for infants in a crib. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is a real and serious danger to young children. Many people don't take it seriously, but a baby can have a high risk of SIDS due to the bedding used, genetic factors, or doing risky things like sleeping in your bed with a small child. |
| Air Flow Mattresses are essentially air mattresses designed for infants instead of adults. You need to have your baby in a seperate crib or sleeping area - under NO CIRCUMSTANCES should you sleep in the same bed as an infant. There is some fairly batty literature out there suggesting that this is important to establish a bond with your child. It's simply not worth the risk - the very reason that cribs were developed in the first place was because of the high rate of infant death involved in sleeping with a small child. If you're actually considering this (or god forbid, doing it) you need to go watch HBO's Autopsy documentary series. One of the episodes focuses on a woman who killed three of her children by unconsciously rolling over on them in her sleep and smothering them to death. Even in a crib, there can be an unacceptably high risk of SIDS. You should look into products designed to reduce this - an Air Flow Mattress can be a good idea as a supplement. First and foremost make sure you have a well designed crib, but look into the Halo Active Air Flow Mattress as a way to reduce the risk further. It is designed to recirculate the air in the crib, avoiding the risk of "rebreathing," one cause of SIDS in which a child cannot get enough fresh air. It's not a silver bullet, but it's an important way to reduce the risk.
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