{"id":14373,"date":"2022-01-06T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/?p=14373"},"modified":"2022-01-06T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T20:11:08","slug":"nz-stillbirths-drop-30-due-to-anti-back-sleep-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disturbmenot.co\/nz-stillbirths-drop-30-due-to-anti-back-sleep-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ: Stillbirths Drop 30% Due to Anti-Back Sleep Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"
New Zealand awarded the<\/span> Health Research Council Beaven Medal<\/span><\/i> to researchers from the University of Auckland for campaigning against back sleeping during late-term pregnancy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The country has recorded a <\/span>decrease in late stillbirths<\/span><\/a> compared to 2009\u2014from 3.4 to 2.5 per 1,000 births\u2014since publicizing the team\u2019s research work led by Professor Lesley McCowan. Put simply, there\u2019s been a <\/span>30% drop in stillbirths<\/span><\/a> during weeks 37\u201340 in the past three years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Moreover, in the US, <\/span>one in every 160 pregnancies<\/span><\/a> ends in fetal death after the 20th gestational week every year. Even more frightening than this stat is the fact that the tragic event remains a mystery in about one-third of the cases.<\/span><\/p>\n In 2011, professor McCowan\u2019s research team noted that in cases of fetal death, mothers were more likely to report having slept flat on their back the night before they thought their baby died.<\/span><\/p>\n