| Author(s) |
Byard, Roger W
Kippen, Rebecca
Maxwell-Stewart, Hamish
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| Publication Date |
2024-06
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| Abstract |
<p>The term overlaying refers to the unintentional suffocation of an infant who is sharing a sleeping surface usually with an adult, although other siblings and domestic animals may also be involved. Despite being documented as early as the Judgement of Solomon (1 Kings 3:19) in the Bible: ‘… and this woman’s child died in the night because she overlaid it’, overlaying has had a somewhat controversial history with assertions in more recent decades being made that there are no dangers to an infant in a parental bed as long as the parents have not smoked. This does not, however, recognise high-risk situations where the bedding is soft and indentable, the parents are fatigued or intoxicated, and the infant has intrinsic vulnerabilities.</p>
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| Citation |
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 60(6), p. 257-259
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| ISSN |
1440-1754
1034-4810
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| Language |
en
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| Publisher |
Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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| Rights |
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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| Title |
Overlaying in colonial Tasmania: Revisiting the Templeman hypothesis
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| Type of document |
Journal Article
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| Entity Type |
Publication
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