Steve5D
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You may not have much experience with newborns; I raised several.
Newborns sleep, even in positions that are uncomfortable and even dangerous - look up SIDS.
Good idea. I found this:
Most deaths due to SIDS occur between 2 and 4 months of age, and incidence increases during cold weather. African-American infants are twice as likely and Native American infants are about three times more likely to die of SIDS than caucasian infants. More boys than girls fall victim to SIDS. Other potential risk factors include:
- smoking, drinking, or drug use during pregnancy
- poor prenatal care
- prematurity or low birth weight
- mothers younger than 20
- tobacco smoke exposure following birth
- overheating from excessive sleepwear and bedding
- stomach sleeping
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Only two of the items have anything to do with sleeping, and only one of those two items has anything to do with the position a baby is sleeping in, and that one says nothing about the position of the baby's head. Despite that you may well have convinced yourself to the contrary, raising several children doesn't make you an expert.
And, either way, I'm willing to bet that no baby photographed in those positions will die during the portrait session.
I think even a mild application of common sense is in order here...
I've raised 5 children, and did the requisite amount of studying and care.
Yet you have decided that, although you clearly don't know crap, that your opinion in this area means something.
Careful when you get down from that high horse, Lew You know, assuming you ever do. You're not the only one who's raised children, and you're not the only one who's studied raising and caring for children. But, hey, you just go ahead and keep on believing that you're somehow more qualified to discuss it.
But, you know, perhaps I was unclear. Let me re-state my point:
You're promoting the idea that a baby in such a photo shoot could die of SIDS as a result of that photo shoot.
That's stupid.
Hopefully my point is a but more clear, and will preclude the necessity for you to pretend that you know more about everything than anyone else...