Diaper rash, self-inflicted excoriations, and crying in full-term newborn infants kept in the prone or supine position

Choice of sleeping position for infants: possible association with cot death.

“…Perhaps the same mechanism is responsible as described by Keitel et al in their group of infants who presumably did not have colic-namely that over half of the infants stopped crying when placed on their stomachs whereas infants who cried while lying prone only occasionally stopped when placed supine. 27 The possibility of an association between cot death and the position in which an infant has been placed for sleep deserves serious consideration. This is not a subject that lends itself easily to prospective trials, both because of the low incidence of cot death (which would entail enrolling thousands of infants), and because of the nature of cot death itself.…”