This week I have chosen to discuss Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), this is a meaningful topic to me because I have worked with a family who had a baby pass away from SIDS. When I worked with this family they had their second child that was enrolled in our infant room. They truly had a passion to teach people about the risk of SIDS and prevention. The information that I have learned about SIDS and will continue to learn through research studies will impact my future work by providing families with knowledgeable information and preventive steps to reduce the risk of SIDS. This is information will also be valuable to me and my co-workers as I continue to work in the childcare field and build a postive relationships with families.
I chose to research SIDS in the Asian culture and found out that infants of the Asian decent are less likely to pass away from SIDS than a Caucasian infant. The research showed that this was due to Asian women breastfeeding their infants and mothers sleeping with the infants. The study revealed that Asian culture truly believe in "co-sleeping."
Reference
Parker, S. (2012). Asian Americans: The Facts. Retrieved from http://www.healthguidance.org.
Lorren,
ReplyDeletehow awful for those parents who lost a baby to SIDS. This personal connection certainly provides you with the impetus to share your knowledge with others. Perhaps also your newfound knowledge of why Asian's babies are less likely to pass away from SIDS will help in your work in spreading information about this preventable death.
Lydia
Lorren,
ReplyDeleteI found your story to be very touching. I have no children of my own so I could never begin to understand what it would be like to lose a child. I think its great that they chose to advocate on how to prevent SIDS from occurring within other families.
Lorren,
ReplyDeleteYou topic and research were very interesting and heartbreaking. I am thankful for educators like yourself that care for our children. This knowledge could also be very helpful for all daycare environments. As a parent and an educator, it becomes more apparent each day of the information I should be more acquainted with. Thank you for sharing! Cindy
Lorren,
ReplyDeleteThere does need to be more awareness of SIDS and how to prevent infan deaths from this process. As educators in early childhood fields, we do not concentrate enough prevention measures for prevention of SIDS. We need to inform parents that even though it may look uncomfortable that babies really need to sleed on their backs for the betterment of their health and the prevention of SIDS.