{"id":15674,"date":"2014-06-18T11:31:23","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=15674"},"modified":"2014-06-18T11:31:23","modified_gmt":"2014-06-18T03:31:23","slug":"child-deaths-spark-new-brunswick-warning-against-infants-sleeping-in-adult-beds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/06\/18\/child-deaths-spark-new-brunswick-warning-against-infants-sleeping-in-adult-beds\/","title":{"rendered":"Child deaths spark New Brunswick warning against infants sleeping in adult beds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/baby.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10694\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/baby.jpg\" alt=\"baby\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/baby.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/baby-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FREDERICTON &#8212; The New Brunswick government is reinforcing a warning to parents that sleeping next to their infants can be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Social Development made the comment in a response to a report by the province&#8217;s child death review committee, which looked into the deaths of two unnamed children.<\/p>\n<p>The April 11 report says adults sleeping with infants and children can be dangerous, adding that is particularly true on certain sleeping surfaces such as couches.<\/p>\n<p>It also says health facilities should ensure that new parents are informed of potential dangers.<\/p>\n<p>The department says in a news release that its social workers would continue to assess the living conditions of any family under its care, including the sleeping arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Paediatric Society website says &#8220;adult beds are not designed with infant safety in mind,&#8221; and are not the safest place for babies to sleep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FREDERICTON &#8212; The New Brunswick government is reinforcing a warning to parents that sleeping next to their infants can be &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":10694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,3],"tags":[5516,1716,357,5515],"class_list":["post-15674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-ca","category-lifestyle","tag-adult-beds","tag-baby","tag-child","tag-deaths","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}