Editing SIDS (section)

===Sleeping===
Placing an infant to sleep while lying on the belly or side rather than on the back increases the risk for SIDS.<ref name=Moon2012/><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carlin RF, Moon RY | title = Risk Factors, Protective Factors, and Current Recommendations to Reduce Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: A Review | journal = JAMA Pediatrics | volume = 171 | issue = 2 | pages = 175–180 | date = February 2017 | pmid = 27918760 | doi = 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2016.3345 | s2cid = 25569308 }}</ref> This increased risk is greatest at two to three months of age.<ref name=Moon2012/> Elevated or reduced room temperature also increases the risk,<ref name=Moon2007>{{cite journal | vauthors = Moon RY, Horne RS, Hauck FR | title = Sudden infant death syndrome | journal = Lancet | volume = 370 | issue = 9598 | pages = 1578–1587 | date = November 2007 | pmid = 17980736 | doi = 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61662-6 | url = http://adc.bmj.com/cgi/content/short/46/248/579-a | access-date = 14 February 2019 | url-status = live | s2cid = 24624496 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210829073529/https://adc.bmj.com/content/46/248/579.2 | archive-date = 29 August 2021 | url-access = subscription }}</ref> as does excessive bedding, clothing, soft sleep surfaces, and [[stuffed animal]]s in the bed.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Fleming PJ, Levine MR, Azaz Y, Wigfield R, Stewart AJ | title = Interactions between thermoregulation and the control of respiration in infants: possible relationship to sudden infant death | journal = Acta Paediatrica | volume = 82 | issue = Suppl 389 | pages = 57–59 | date = June 1993 | pmid = 8374195 | doi = 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1993.tb12878.x | s2cid = 44497216 }}</ref> [[Bumper pads]] may increase the risk of SIDS due to the risk of suffocation. They are not recommended for children under one year of age, as this risk of suffocation greatly outweighs the risk of head bumping or limbs getting stuck in the bars of the crib.<ref name=Moon2012/>

[[Co-sleeping|Sharing a bed]] with parents or siblings increases the risk for SIDS.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = McIntosh CG, Tonkin SL, Gunn AJ | title = What is the mechanism of sudden infant deaths associated with co-sleeping? | journal = The New Zealand Medical Journal | volume = 122 | issue = 1307 | pages = 69–75 | date = December 2009 | pmid = 20148046 }}</ref> This risk is greatest in the first three months of life, when the mattress is soft, when one or more persons share the infant's bed, especially when the bed partners are using drugs or alcohol or are smoking.<ref name=Moon2012/> The risk remains, however, even in parents who do not smoke or use drugs.<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Carpenter R, McGarvey C, Mitchell EA, Tappin DM, Vennemann MM, Smuk M, Carpenter JR | title = Bed sharing when parents do not smoke: is there a risk of SIDS? An individual level analysis of five major case-control studies | journal = BMJ Open | volume = 3 | issue = 5 | pages = e002299 | date = May 2013 | pmid = 23793691 | pmc = 3657670 | doi = 10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002299 }} {{open access}}</ref> The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] thus recommends "room-sharing without bed-sharing", stating that such an arrangement can decrease the risk of SIDS by up to 50%. Furthermore, the academy has recommended against devices marketed to make bed-sharing "safe", such as "in-bed co-sleepers".<ref name=AAP2011>{{cite journal | vauthors = Moon RY | title = SIDS and other sleep-related infant deaths: expansion of recommendations for a safe infant sleeping environment | journal = Pediatrics | volume = 128 | issue = 5 | pages = 1030–1039 | date = November 2011 | pmid = 22007004 | doi = 10.1542/peds.2011-2284 | doi-access = free }}</ref>

Room sharing as opposed to solitary sleeping is known to decrease the risk of SIDS.<ref>{{cite book | vauthors = Young J, Shipstone R | chapter = Shared Sleeping Surfaces and Dangerous Sleeping Environments|date=2018| chapter-url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513372/ | veditors = Duncan JR, Byard RW | title =SIDS Sudden Infant and Early Childhood Death: The Past, the Present and the Future|place=Adelaide (AU)|publisher=University of Adelaide Press|isbn=978-1-925261-67-7|pmid=30035939|access-date=2021-01-11|archive-date=4 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221104162006/http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK513372/|url-status=live}}</ref>