Blanket Question

I had an anonymous commenter ask me about why I mentioned that pretty soon, we would not be covering N up at night with a blanket once he starts moving around more.

Our reason for this is due to the chance of SIDS, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.  There are lots of precautions you can take and not being covered by a blanket is one of them.  N, due to the meds he became addicted to before birth, has an increased risk of SIDS and we want to do what we can to prevent that.

I've included a website containing some information about SIDS and the precautions they suggest.

http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/sleep/sids.html#

Another precaution we have taken was to purchase the Angelcare Deluxe Movement Monitor, a monitor that not only works like a normal monitor with sound, but one that also detects breathing and tells us the temperature in the room.  If the monitor does not detect breathing or movement for 20 seconds or if the temperature becomes too high or too low, an alarm goes off, letting us know that something isn't right.  This has helped us sleep at night without worrying about if he is still breathing.  This monitor looks like a normal one, but has a special piece that goes under the mattress, meaning that he is not hooked up to any wires like in the hospital.

Thanks for asking and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask.  :)