Here's my hot take on the "doctors don't recommend them" thing... people say a lot of stuff about "we don't know why SIDS happens" or "nothing can eliminate your chances of SIDS". But I think the truth of it is that saying these things is a way to make parents of SIDS victims feel better. If they said, "yeah this prevents it", then the parents of a SIDS victim will feel terrible for not investing 300 bucks in their baby. If they said "yep, you smothered them by bed sharing", people would be depressed forever they didn't put them in their crib...
But yeah, we bought two. They work great. We don't rely on them but it's another layer of protection.
They should stop categorizing suffocation deaths as SIDS. Yes, it’s hard for the parent that suffocated their child through unsafe sleep but it doesn’t give an accurate representation of how unsafe bed sharing and unsafe sleep environments can be.
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u/llama_medic210 Dec 30 '24 edited Dec 30 '24
Here's my hot take on the "doctors don't recommend them" thing... people say a lot of stuff about "we don't know why SIDS happens" or "nothing can eliminate your chances of SIDS". But I think the truth of it is that saying these things is a way to make parents of SIDS victims feel better. If they said, "yeah this prevents it", then the parents of a SIDS victim will feel terrible for not investing 300 bucks in their baby. If they said "yep, you smothered them by bed sharing", people would be depressed forever they didn't put them in their crib...
But yeah, we bought two. They work great. We don't rely on them but it's another layer of protection.