Parents New Year's Eve Warning

This Friday is New Year's Eve, but with all the celebrations comes a word of caution, especially if you have a baby in the house.

Unfortunately the day after, New Year's Day, is the biggest day for infant SIDS deaths of the year and it might be something parents are doing on this particular day that causes this.

A new study just released found that on New Year's Day, SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, peaks by almost almost a third as many cases compared to every other winter day. And although these researchers can't pinpoint the exact cause, they believe the parents' alcohol consumption New Year's Eve may have something to do with it.

SIDS specialists believe that one factor in the rise in cases on this day is parents that have over celebrated might not be sober enough to notice signs of distress in their baby. As they put it, if a parent is too intoxicated to wake themselves will they wake up if their baby is having problems during the night.

The researchers involved in this particular study, just published in the journal Addiction, say that although they can't directly pinpoint alcohol as the cause of this increase in deaths, that there does seem to be something parents are doing, or possibly something they are not doing, on New Year's Day that causes this rise in SIDS deaths. If your a parent of a young child, they recommend you not drink to the point were you can't respond to their needs overnight, especially on this upcoming New Year's Eve.