“These deaths are still happening -- and they happen to well-meaning parents,” said Dr. Rachel Moon, a UVA pediatrician who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics task force on SIDS and authored the AAP policy statement on safe infant sleep. “We have remained at the same rate of sleep-related deaths since around 1998,” she added. “And the rate in the U.S. is much higher than that in most developed -- and even some not-so-developed countries.”