• AAP expands guidelines for infant sleep safety and SIDS Risk Reduction

• Researchers develop mouse with ‘off switch’ in key brain cell population
• March 2011 - 34th National Compassionate Friends Conference will be held July 15-17 2011 at the Sheraton Hotel, Minneapolis South in Bloomington. This conference will include nationally renowned speakers, over 100 workshops, sharing sessions, picture buttons, hospitality rooms, memory boards, and a national Walk to Remember. For more information or to register go to compassionatefriends.org.

• Breast feeding and SIDS risk reduction - A recent research review published in on line Pediatrics, Vol 128, Number 1, July 2011, found that breast feeding is protective against SIDS and that this effect is stronger when breast feeding is exclusive.

• New crib requirements for child care providers effective December 28, 2012

• CPSC Educates New Parents on Safe Babywearing: Infant suffocation deaths in slings prompt renewed effort to warn moms and dads

• Hazardous Use of Car Seats Outside the Car in the United States, 2003–2007

• “Sudden, Unexpected Infant Death: Infant Mortality Trends, Parental Grief and the Role of the Public Health Nurse” Video Conference

• Curriculum for Nurses: Continuing Education Program on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Risk Reduction

• Research Findings: Low Production of Serotonin in the Brainstem Linked to SIDS
• Webinar: Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): Research, Success and Challenges, Dr. Marian Willinger and Dr. Rachel Moon.

• Study Links Factors to Choice of Infant Sleep Position

• Federal Legislation Proposed: Stillbirth and SUID Prevention, Education and Awareness Act

• How Infant Sleep Environments Are Depicted in Magazines
• Review Highlights Advances in Understanding Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

• EMedicineHealth.com: A guide to SIDS

• Podcast: Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID): National Developments, Initiatives, Studies and Opportunities

• Trends in Accidental Suffocation and Strangulations in Bed Among Infants During 1984-2004

• Study: US Infant Mortality Trends Attributable to Accidental Suffocation and Strangulation in Bed From 1984 Through 2004: Are Rates Increasing?
• Related News Article: Researchers link baby in parents' bed to uptick in infant deaths
• AAP Reaffirms Policy on SIDS

• SIDS & Safe Infant Sleep conference DVD available for order
• Crib and bassinet recalls (infant deaths prompt recalls)
  1.) Simplicity 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible close-sleeper models
  2.) Delta Enterprise drop side cribs; missing safety pegs
  3.) Delta Enterprise drop side cribs; spring peg failure
  4.) Convertible cribs by Playkids USA

• Research Abstract: Impact of Changes in Infant Death Classification on the Diagnosis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

February 2008

• Testimony to MN State Legislature, by Kathleen Fernbach, Minnesota SID Center
• Testimony to MN State Legislature, by Colleen Lindstrom, parent

• Preventing Smoking and Exposure to Secondhand Smoke Before, During, and After Pregnancy (PDF)

• Unique coalition launches campaign to encourage safe infant sleep

• SIDS Infants Show Abnormalities In Brain Area Controlling Breathing, Heart Rate

• Coalition of State Organizations Endorse Safe Sleep Recommendations for Infants

• Minnesota SIDS Annual Statistical Summary (PDF)

• Infant Mortality Subsets, Minnesota Infants 1990-2004 (PDF)

• APA Revises SIDS Prevention Recommendations
• CPSC, JPMA Launch Campaign About the Hidden Hazards of Placing Babies in Adult Beds
• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Infant Mortality Rates — 60 Largest U.S. Cities, 1995–1998
• Report Finds Soft Bedding a Factor in Playpen Deaths-- CPSC, Mattel Launch Campaign to Alert Caregivers
• Cardiorespiratory Events Detected by Home Monitors Common in Healthy Babies As Well As Those at Risk for SIDS
• NICHD-Funded Researchers Uncover Abnormal Brain Pathways in SIDS Victims