An epidemic of new-born photography poses: the potential dangers of passive end range positioning during induced sleep in 0-14-day-old neonates: a scoping review.

The review is a scoping review, not a test of newborn photography outcomes, so it cannot show that the poses caused harm. Most evidence about extreme neck positions came from cadaver or post-mortem studies, not living neonates. The included studies were not mostly limited to the very early newborn period described in the title. The pain-modulating effect of white noise varied between people and was described as not reliable enough for clinical use. The review did not measure real-world exposure, duration or outcomes in babies.

The work was not funded and the authors declared no conflict of interest. One author owns the copyrights to the drawings, and another is a hobby photographer who restored the pictures.

Do not conclude that newborn photography has been shown to cause injury or sudden infant death. The review found no evidence from living babies that extreme cervical positions cause harm, and most vertebral artery compression findings came from cadaver studies, so they describe anatomical potential, not proven harm.