Posted on 01/29/2017 1:03:24 PM PST by SMGFan
New parents in New Jersey will not only bring their bundles of joy home from the hospital, they’ll also get a baby box. The boxes, which promote safe sleeping, are part of an effort to improve infant mortality rates. The United States has a high infant mortality rate— 6.5 infant deaths per 1,000 births, ranking it 23rd in the world. In 2016, 93 percent of deaths due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) were associated with sleep complications, Philly Voice reported.
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Hard to believe “The concept of baby boxes originated in Finland about 80 years ago and the country’s infant mortality rate is the world’s lowest, at 1.3 deaths per 1,000 births, Philly Voice reported.” and yet so many families had to suffer the heartbreak of SIDS.
Will it be in Spanish, Arabic or English?
Nanny state rum amok.
Compulsory full service pumps.
Now this.
How much more this will add to property tax?
Who cares about the language?I don’t think anyone here would want a SIDS death for any child.
If it were from Sweden , you would probably have to assemble it.
The cost of this will be passed along to the insurance companies and government, meaning 994 people out of 1000, will have elevated costs to their (financial) provider’s delivery expenses, when it wasn’t necessary.
Someone is making a handsome profit off this. Every child will get one, needed or not.
A question does occur to me. How many of the SIDS deaths are neglect, alcohol, or drug, neglect or malnourishment related? What percent of the SIDS cases would that account for? Half? Three quarters?
Which areas of our nation are experiencing the most SIDS deaths?
IMO, what we’re looking at is drugs, Alcohol, and some level of neglect and malnourished.
If that is true, then the demographic that causes so many other problems, it driving up these numbers as well.
Idiocy is not a victim-less situation.
When our Ben was a newborn (27 years ago) we put him in a Smithfield ham basket on the floor next to my side of the bed. When he got restless or was starting to cry, I could sccop him up without getting out of bed, and tuck him in next to me to nurse. After he dropped off from his Mama Milk Sleepydrink, I could just reach over and tuck him back into his ham basket
Easiest thing in the world, and what a happy baby.
Cool! Now include
1. some info about how babies need stimulus for their brains to develop properly (play with the baby), and
2. a copy of the Constitution, including a translation to small words and big print.
That would help empty the prisons.
Ebonics.
That’s what I envisioned, maybe IKEA could make them in a stackable form, and that could clip together for twins.
When my 2nd daughter was born in 1972, we got a box. It was in the attic until a few years ago when we were cleaning It out. It may still be there. I do not know if the hospitals here still do that.
If you need the state or hospital to provide you with instructions on how to safely raise your child, you shouldn’t be having kids.
Hate to rain on your attempts to be haughty, but I lost a daughter when she was four months old. This was in 1982 before there were baby monitors or sensors. There is lots of research into causes and NONE of the evidence is proved through poverty, drugs or alcohol. None. It even happens to the wealthy. So, can’t we just pray that even one child might be saved?
In a few years we will start to see stories about an epidemic of pre-schoolers with vision problems in New Jersey.
The original belief of SIDS was largely due to a woman who systematically murdered most of her babies.
http://www.nytimes.com/1995/04/22/nyregion/mother-guilty-in-the-killings-of-5-babies.html
That was my first thought, too!
All of my seven siblings survived infancy without a baby box or other device. The first of us to pass away did so at the age of 62. This is the responsibility of the parents.
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