Many infants move from position in which they are put to sleep

doi:10.1136/bmj.313.7068.1333

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Guus A De Jonge,
Adele C Engelberts

Emeritus professor of paediatrics Prins Bernhardlaan 50, 2341 KL Oegstgeest, Netherlands
Paediatrician Department of Paediatrics, Academic Hospital Leiden, Netherlands

EDITOR,—Peter J Fleming and colleagues' paper emphasises the importance of methods of caring for babies in the risk of the sudden infant death syndrome.1 It does not, however, mention an important potential confounding factor for the risk attributed to sleeping position. In all seven Dutch national surveys on sleeping positions of infants between 1985 and November 1994 more boys than girls were placed to sleep prone.2 3 The same surprising difference was found in Flanders (Belgium) and Munster and Detmold (Germany).4 Half …