[trish_448]

I dont understand how laying you infant on a soft blanket or comforter could cause your baby to get SIDS..How does that possibly cause that to happen?

[Lisa]

If placed on their bellies, they can't roll over or move their heads if the blanket gets bunched up and they then can't breathe.

[Tiph]

The blanket or comforter could become wrapped around the child or disrupt the air flow around the child which is believed to cause SIDS. Same reason they dont reccomend the use of crib bumpers anymore unless they are placed below the matress.

[Bear B]

I'm not sure they really know why, but they have found that babies who lie on their backs have a lower incidence of SIDS than babies who lie on their sides or their tummies. I suspect it's not the blanket or comforter, but rather the position that makes the difference.

[Erinn]

It's more of the position that your child is laying opposed to the material. Children who sleep on their stomachs are more likely to inhale their exhaled carbon dioxide because they are unable to roll over or unbury their face if it is bunched up in a blanket.

[elaeblue]

If the baby should get turned around with its mouth close to the comforter or blanket -the child may not be able to breathe as well as necessary.

[Nikka]

If they roll over and their face happens to press against the blanket.

If they can't breath, it's called suffocation...SIDS, is just Sudden Infant Death Syndrome....it's caused from a number of things...

It’s a problem when they’re at that stage where they’re still mastering the art of rolling over. They’ll manage to get from their back to their tummy, but then an arm can get in the way, and they can’t roll back over. They can suffocate because they also don’t have the strength to turn their heads.