Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Support Group

Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year. SIDS is responsible for roughly 50 deaths per 100,000 births in the US.

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nancy grace last night- 2 babies die from sids

elijah4
elijah4
Okay I just got done watching Nancy grace tonight and I am absolutely LIVID. Here is a link to her site to read the story and "NANCY'S IGNORANT STANCE" on this issue. I once was a Nancy grace watcher but I lost so much respect after tonight. What do any of you think.

http://nancygrace.blogs.cnn.com/

Look under- 2 infants die in moms bed.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Oh Lord, here we go...
deleted_user
deleted_user
O.k. This makes no sense. It states that the cause for Tristian's death was UNKNOWN. They blamed co-sleeping for the death of the first child, but said UNKNOWN for this one. Personally I would never co-sleep because I am a very restless sleeper (just ask my poor husband) and after co-sleeping was blamed for the death of the first, if I was the parents I'd be more hesitant to co-sleep a second time. But, it says the cause of Tristian's death was unknown.
And it's all a bunch of bull to say co-sleeping is linked to SIDS. Bull, bull, bull!!!!!!! I wasn't co-sleeping and Isaiah died. I know plenty of people who did co-sleep and their children are alive. It just makes me so angry that no one knows what causes SIDS but so many blab the crap about preventing and reducing the risk. How can you prevent or reduce the risk of something that has no known cause?
deleted_user
deleted_user
It seems to me like either

a) these deaths weren't SIDS and either get mislabeled or in the one case, not labeled at all

or

b) these deaths are SIDS and therefore co-sleeping or not co-sleeping would't have made a difference

To lump them together and say that they were both SIDS and caused by co-sleeping is irresponsibe on the part of the media. Like that's new...