by Joyce Slaton posted in Products & Prizes

The American Academy of Pediatrics' Safe Sleep (formerly called Back to Sleep) program, which began encouraging caregivers to put infants to sleep on their backs in 1995, is generally considered responsible for an over 50 percent drop in SIDS rates from 1995 to 2005.
But though infants are far less likely to die of what used to be called "crib death" in general, it has emerged that there is a particularly risky time in an infant's life: the first week of daycare. Sleep experts now know that approximately 20 percent of SIDS deaths happen in childcare settings, most commonly in the first week.

It's a scary statistic for parents already nervous about leaving their infants. But you're not helpless, and you're not alone. There are many things you can do to ensure your nanny, sitter, or childcare provider follows safe sleep practices. Why does it happen"
It's notable that so many of the approximately 1,500 yearly SIDS deaths occur while babies are being cared for a non-parent, because a child spends so much less time sleeping with the carer during the day than at night with parents. Plus, as the most relevant study to date found, infants "who die in child care have 'low risk' demographics: Caucasian; older, more educated parents; more likely to be in a crib without pillows or blankets; and less likely to have secondhand or in utero smoke exposure."
So why"
The answer may lie with the stress and disrup...