This is the situation, when sometimes healthy baby died during the sleep due to unexpected/unknown reasons. But preventive measures can help to lower down the risk. Some Preventive measures are”
Avoid shaking your baby. Baby’s Brain is very fragile. Too much shaking cause brain to move back and forth, brain hit the skull and which can cause serious brain injury or permanent disability and can even cause death.
This risk starts when baby is born, choking can occur while breast feeding or through mucous. When baby is 6 month old, there involves risk of choking due to solid food. Do not give them round fruit such as grapes as it caused many choking incidence. Make Food Puree upto the age of 9 month and then gradually change baby ‘s food habit from puree to solid one. Give Baby enough time to learn chewing process.
When baby start rolling, they can fall on unexpected/unsafe places. So protect baby from unexpected injury. Keep your baby on safe place. Watch all the nearby places where baby can probably reach. Consider all possible danger for your baby and give full protection. If you are swaddling your baby, its time to stop it because for swaddling baby needs to be in back but if baby starts rolling, face will turn down and smothering can occur due to swaddler.
When baby starts mobilization from one place to another to reach objects. This risk raises when baby starts crawling or walking. Parents or Guardian need to be extra careful with:
Apart from these issues there are some other issues related with baby’s safety.
Follow all the standards mention on car seat manual to tie that seat properly and do safety check before letting baby sit in that.
Try to make your home babyproof using baby safety product for kitchen cabinets, electric outlets, safety gates, safety around corners and lots of other baby safety products available in market.
Mom / Medical Professional
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