AIM To examine the sleeping arrangements of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) cases on the Wirral. In particular to determine the prevalence of bed sharing with mothers who smoke, a known risk factor for SIDS. METHODS Retrospective study of postmortem determined cases of SIDS from 1995 to 2000 on the Wirral peninsula (population 350 000, 3500 annual births). Ambulance crew reports, case not...

AIM Despite its declining incidence, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is still an important cause of death in infancy. This study investigated the environmental circumstances associated with SIDS, by analysing data from all sudden unexpected deaths in infancy (SUDI) in Sweden from 2005 to 2011. METHODS All Swedish infants forensically autopsied up to the age of 365 days from 2005 to 2011 w...

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Recent studies in multi-agent systems are paying increasingly more attention to the paradigm of designing intelligent agents with human inspired concepts. One of the main cognitive concepts driving the core of many recent approaches in multi agent systems is shared mental models. In this paper, we propose an architecture for sharing mental models based on a new concept called semantic movement....

As noted below, most researchers agree that young babies should sleep in the same room where their parents sleep. The point of disagreement is whether parents should be advised against sharing their beds. Some researchers think that the safest arrangement involves cosleeping without sharing the same bed—-i.e., placing a young infant in a crib or “side car” that is within arm’s reach of his parent.

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of sidecar cribs on the postnatal ward affects breastfeeding duration. DESIGN A randomised non-blinded parallel trial comparing sidecar cribs with standalone cots. SETTING Postnatal wards of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. PARTICIPANTS 1204 pregnant women intending to breastfeed were recruited at 20 weeks' gestation and randomised ...