What an AMAZING article! I can't wait for my daughter to read this...she had premonitions throughout her pregnancy and always voiced her fears/concerns with me. She called me one morning after she had gone for her morning jog, pushing the 2 little ones in a jogging stroller, and said that she had taken Sage out of the stoller and noticed that he was in a VERY deep sleep. It scared her because it was not the normal sleep of an infant. Sage was her 5th baby so she is very familiar with what is "normal". She tried to wake him them started to pray...she asked Heavenly Father for more time. She told me that morning that she was terrified Sage would die of SIDS. I listened to her and a "Gut Feeling" hit me so strongly. Sage died a month later. We had a premonition like the article discusses.
Thanks for sharing. Again I can't wait for Crystal, my daughter, to read this.

It is so amazing to me how many of us have had these overwhelming feelings.
I had mine when Ari was still in the hospital. (She was 8 weeks preemie) I had just finished nursing her, and was holding her. She was content and happy. All of a sudden, I got this overwhelming feeling that shook me to the very core...that she wasn't going to be around for long. I didn't know how/why she was going to die, I just felt it with every fibre of my being. I cried and cried, till the doctors pried her out of my arms, and told me to go home and get some rest. I cried all the way home, and cried myself to sleep. The morning Ari died, I knew something was horribly wrong before I even seen her. Those feelings rushed back to the surface. I get feelings like that with my new baby sometimes, and it scares me to death. I think it's probably more psychological now...think my mind is just relating one baby to the last baby (he was born on what would have been Ari's first birthday...also 8 weeks early, and the first month of his life pretty much mirrored hers to the day and hour) At least I pray that's all it is~!
I'm not sure what I feel about these premonitions. Is it God's way of allowing us to prepare more? Not that anyone can be prepared for a loss this tragic, but would it be worse to not have those feelings, and then go through it? Or is it that our bodies and our souls are so connected with our babies, that we subconsiously know that something just isn't right?

I had them too. I don't like talking about them much.
I have had premonitions since Nick died. I will share the good ones, but not the bad ones. Some have come true, some have not.
Right before we lost Nick my husband had a nightmare, but he had our other child in his dream. I think his was a premonition too, but his did not come through totally clear.

I constantly would check Siena when she was napping/sleeping.....grabbing her and scaring the poor little thing......I admit I eased up on it after 6 months, but I just had a feeling....I also had a terrible premontion the day before my mother died, but she came through her surgery fine and then died that night. It's so scary.

I had so many dreams telling me that Emma wouldn't be with me very long. I just knew. My third child, but I looked at her with more fragile eyes. One dream was at Emma's first birthday party, one week before she died. I stood before all of our family, about one hundred relatives, thanking them for helping out with a long year. When I looked around to see what Emma would look like at 12 months old, she was not there. When I woke up, I knew something terrible was going to happen. My husband and I even discussed if anything happened, we promised not to blame ourselves. And sure enough, just weeks later, the inevitable happened.

The week before we lost Claire, I sat in bed holding Claire, rocking her to sleep. When for no good reason i started crying histeracally. My hubby asked me what was wrong and i told him "It feels like someone is coming to take my baby from me." he calmed me down. I put Claire to bed and She passed a week to the day later. I totally believe this is a real experience parents go through.

My husband and I felt the same way. There were so many little signs that he wasn't going to be here long. I would always make excuses for no reason like I didn't want to buy Colton a Christmas stocking - I have no idea why. I just knew that he didn't need one. My husband purposely distanced himself from Colton for no reason. He wouldn't even cut the umbilical cord at the hospital. This is SO not like him. We made everyone wash their hands before they touched him. We never felt things like this with our first born. My husband would check on Colton almost every hour at night. I asked more than a couple of times at the pediatricians about SIDS and heart monitors. Every time he woke up crying to eat I would say out loud, "It only lasts a little while." It was my favorite saying. Everyone thought we were crazy. I even thought we were crazy.

Wow. I didn't realize how common this was. The night/morning my daughter died my husband had a dream he says was from God telling him that she was dead & not to blame himself for her death. (which he did anyway) He told me this as I was doing CPR on our baby. I always wonder why I didn't get a message too. I was the strong one through all of it though, so I assume it was because he needed the message more than I did.

Wow... that was powerful! I too wasn't quite sure about Kendal... when I was first pregnant I though for sure I was going to miscarry... and then there were a couple time when she stopped breathing while crying and I had to hit her back to get her to start again.

completely acurate! I'm glad to know it wasn't just me. Everyone thought I was crazy as much as I said something was wrong.Noone will evr doubt a mother's intuition again!

I had a beautiful son called Tom, he was big and strong and everyone said he would be a rugby player. One day when he was 4 months old I put him in his cot - he was no problem, no worries no anxiety. When i put him down I was about to walk away. I lingered and looked at him... he looked great and fine, I had an older son who I had no worries about. It was normal...everything was normal.

Then out of nowhere a big thunderbolt came...this child will die..sorry but you cannot keep him. I was shocked and suddenly i cried, I cannot explain what happened but I knew he would be taken away. I cried and cried and begged God even though I did not understand..please no please let me keep him. I cried and prayed and then it was all taken away. I mean it was strange...all my tears were taken away and then I felt peace. Peace like I had never felt before it wiped out everything before and made it all ok.

I woke up and dismissed it, it must have been a dream a vision something not real. But when I looked at him 2 days later he had a look in his eye which said I wont be here long. I rang my doctor and took him to the GP but there was nothing wrong. 5 days before he died I Took him to a GP I was told nothing wrong - anxiety from Mother! 4 days before I got a GP to come to the house - I was told he was fine and dont ever ask for a GP again to be a call out when nothing wrong. Then he died. I knew he would. Everything went like clockwork like it was meant to be. Very strange. I was told he would go and there was nothing I could do. It was God or the Holy Spirit. There is no other explanation .xxx

Please...look into this. My cousin is a nurse and witnessed a baby die of SIDS an hour after being vaccinated. Now there are doctors coming out saying the Perstussis vaccine in particular is causing this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=F2_jwB6YbN0

I saw how old this post is. But I wanted to share. From the moment my son was born. I could not stop holding him. The feeling I had I could not describe at the time. It was like I was holding him for dear life. He had a doctors appt. 2 days before he passed. Clean bill of health. The last night I had with him was peaceful. When I was holding him admiring him. He was just a cooing and waving his arms and legs like someone was standing behind me. But everyone in the home was asleep. He must seen god then. I laid down with him whispering, " I love you so much" while kissing him from head to toe. Little did I know that was going to be my last time with him.