As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the campaign, unveiled last Wednesday, includes two posters of a baby lying inside a bed following to a large knife. In one, the baby is white; in the other, the baby is black. “YOUR BABY SLEEPING NEXT TO YOU CAN BE JUST AS DANGEROUS,” the copy blares.
The second-leading cause of infant mortality in Milwaukee is SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, which usually final results from ”unsafe sleep,” according to the health department’s website. A type of “unsafe sleep” is bed-sharing with parents.
Opinion from reader:
1. I’m from the Milwaukee area, the problem is these girls that are drinking or getting high, then coming home and going to bed with their babies. They lose that natural awareness most cosleeping mothers have at that point. The same goes for anyone that takes pain meds or sleep meds. I coslept with both my babies and if they breathed wrong for a half second I was awake. People need to learn to do it the right way and the mothers who are under the influence while cosleeping should get charged in their baby’s death.
2. I am so angry. The campaign is a bunch of lies. Co-sleeping lowers SIDs risks in infants when done properly. A baby’s breathing will become in sinc with moms and lowers chance of them not breathing properly. If you want to lower deaths teach proper ways to co-sleep. No pillow tops, no smoking,no drinking before bed, no meds that make you sleepy, no blankets over baby,and no drugs. A poster above said about rolling over on the baby. I have never rolled over on my kids. I co-slept 5 children and never an accident. I slept curled around my kids holding them. If the mortality rate is so high then they need to look and see if some of thos parents were not drunk or stoned.
