How old must a child be before suffocating is

[luvmyfam444]

nothing to be worried about? Ya know when they can cover their heads to sleep & there's nothing to be concerned about?

 

[AKLBeauty]

I will still pull the covers down to all my kid's chest if they have it over their face. They are 3, 9 and 14. I don't think any of them would suffocate, but I don't like a blanket/cover over anyone's face.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I had to respond to this since my 18yodd SLEEPS like this. It drives me crazy. However since she is in college in the dorms, I have to let it go.

 

[mtemm]

my 7 year old does this and it completely freaks me out. I keep telling him not to, and we have good talks about the reasons why, but he still does it from time to time.

I have a feeling that he'll be in a college dorm before I'll be able to stop checking on him!

hmmm...maybe he'll go to school somewhere near here and I could just sneak over....lol....

 

[tzolkin]

I've slept like that my whole life. Now I only pull the covers over my head on cold nights.

Two of my kids often have the covers over their heads when I go in to wake them up. I don't think they intentionally pull them up that high (they don't fall asleep like that), but they just move around throughout the night and often wind up down inside the blankets. I would check on them more often when they were little and pull the blanket down if necessary, but now I don't worry about it anymore... of course until I read this thread.

 

[DMickey28]

Are you talking in general from the fear of SIDS? I believe the risk drops drastically after 1. I used the angelcare monitor for DS until he was about 2 years old! It was just a great peace of mind.

I think anyone at any age can die of suffication by having the blanket over their head if they are a deep sleeper and wouldn't wake if they started having trouble breathing.

 

[disney1990]

My DH sleeps like that. I can't stand to have the covers over my head.

 

[clovergirl5]

This too drives me insane when I catch my dc doing this. I explain to them why they can't do it. I have seen my dd2 do this a few times

 

[Jenvenza]

I dont know when the risk stops. But my DD is 2 and if I saw her doing that, i would move the blanket. Just to be safe!

 

[bumbershoot]

Are you talking in general from the fear of SIDS? I believe the risk drops drastically after 1.

Of course SIDS isn't suffocating. If it were, it would be called suffocating, not SIDS. SIDS has no apparent reason.



As soon as my son could pull covers off of him even while sleeping, I called it good. That was around 3 months. But we had/have a family bed and it's AMAZING how a parent (who knows baby is there...not a parent who doesn't co-sleep but accidentally falls asleep with baby) gets so attuned to what's going on. I would wake up if he made a strange sound, I would wake up if he was too quiet (sometimes babies will take these long inhales, and I would wake for that, blow on his face to make myself feel better, he'd exhale and I'd go back to sleep). It's so amazing.


But yeah, once I saw him push things off his head (I didn't put the things on him, HE had pulled it up! and I watched him push it off) I relaxed. Even more than I already was.

 

[BeachGirlFLA]

Wow, I never even thought of this as something dangerous. I did it when I was a kid and "my" dog does it now (he burrows under my comforter - at least his head and sometimes his entire body - before he goes to sleep.)

 

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

About the time they hit their teenage years and the hormones kick in was when I considered it.....

but they graduated High school and moved on...


wait...what?

 

[luvmyfam444]

K so it sounds like I don't need to worry - she's plenty old enough to pull the covers off her head - if I pull them off she'll put them back on