sudden infant death syndrome

Dear Doctors: Our daughter-in-law is four months pregnant with our first grandchild. When she and our son were recently visiting for the weekend, we became aware that she’s secretly smoking. She says it’s OK because it’s just three cigarettes a day and asked us not to tell our son. Is [...]

Dear Doctors: We have always been careful to put our son to sleep on his back to prevent SIDS, but he has recently started turning over by himself and we find him on his stomach. Should we prevent this? Dr. Elizabeth Ko and Dr. Eve [...]

Exhausted parents don’t need one more thing to keep them up at night. But this alarming statistic might do just that: Each year, around 3,500 babies in the United States die from unsafe sleep situations. These unexplained deaths often occur in healthy babies under one year of age. [...]