Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everywhere by urging that all healthy infants be placed on their sides or backs when they sleep. The physicians' group was responding to reports from Europe that showed that babies who sleep on their backs are much less likely to succumb to sudden-infant-death syndrome, also known as crib death, than those who sleep on their stomachs...
...back to sleep, there is still more you can do to lower his risk of SIDS. Make sure the mattress is firm, so if your child rolls onto his stomach, his face won't settle into the bed. Remove all fluffy pillows and stuffed animals from the crib. And never let your baby fall asleep on a sheepskin--even on his back. A number of infants have died when the sheepskin or other soft bedding wound up covering their faces. Apparently, the material can cause just enough of a pocket to form around the baby's face that...
...want to consider what the Europeans are up to now. They've become convinced that overheating also plays a role in triggering crib death. Some parents in Holland, for example, don't even keep sheets on their baby's bed. Instead, they dress the infant in a one-piece "baby sack," which leaves plenty of room for the child to move around without fear of sweltering or suffocating. That may be going a bit far, but there's no denying that taking a few simple steps so that your baby will breathe more easily in his sleep can prevent...
...feminist therapists, ended up attaching themselves to the bizarre fringes of the sexual-recovery movement. "Women weren't looking at their lives and saying, 'I'm stressed because I'm getting no help at home,' they were saying, 'I'm stressed out because my family molested me in the crib,'"explains social psychologist Carol Tavris. "The feelings of powerlessness many women continued to have in the early '90s got attached to sex-abuse-survivor syndrome." When Tavris debunked self-help books on incest-survivor syndrome in the New York Times Book Review in 1993, she received a flood of letters...
WASHINGTON: The crib death of John McCain?s $568 billion antitobacco legislation has left the White House facing both financial and political poverty for the rest of the year, says TIME White House correspondent Jay Branegan. "Not only was Clinton banking heavily on the revenues from the Senate antitobacco legislation as a way to fund some programs that are very important to him," Branegan says, "but he?s out of political capital as well...