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The American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends that infants be put to sleep on their back instead of on their side or stomach.<ref name="feldman-winter2016">{{REFjournal
|last= Feldman-Winter
|first=Lori
|author-link=
|last2=Goldsmith,
|first2=Jay P.
|author2-link=
|etal=no
|title=Safe sleep and skin-to-skin care in the neonatal period for healthy term newborns
|trans-title=
|language=English
|journal=Pediatrics
|location=
|date=2016-10
|volume=138
|issue=3
|pages=2016-1889
|url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/138/3/e20161889
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=27550975
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2016-1889
|accessdate=2020-07-09
}}</ref> While this has reduced the incidence of SIDS somewhat, it certainly has not eliminated it.
==The allostasis hypothesis==
Elhaick observes that the SIDS rate in the UK where the NHS does not perform non-therapeutic circumcision is 0.38 per 1000 as compared with the US rate of 0.55 per 1000 where most male infants are circumcised.<ref name="elhaick2016" />
==Evidence of association with circumcision==
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