Reply

We appreciate the opportunity to respond to the comments of Drs Bartick and Feldman-Winter concerning our recent publication on trends in newborn sudden unexpected infant deaths (SUID). They state that we concluded "an increase in suffocation deaths is due in part to skin-to-skin care (SSC) and resultant sudden unexpected postnatal collapse (SUPC)." We actually noted that the decrease in SUID that occurred in the postneonatal period before 2002 did not occur in neonates and that SUPC may have contributed to that outcome.

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