VA was joking on the earlier post about SIDS. I’m glad I wasn’t alone in not getting the joke. She elaborates today.
SIDS is a load of bunk. Children just don’t ‘magically die’ sometimes when they’re home alone with poor postpartum Mommy.
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I don’t have cites, but research has shown that babies don’t always have the hang of breathing on their own. This is why babies who sleep with their mothers in safe conditions have a lower rate of SIDS; they naturally regulate their breathing to their mothers’. Studies which show a higher rate of infant deaths while sleeping with their parents tend to ignore factors such as parental intoxication, indoor smoking and unsafe sleep space (e.g. waterbeds, sofas). Also, such studies are generally funded by crib manufacturers.
I’ve got off on a bit of a tangent, and I have read of cases where women who have lost more than one baby to “SIDS” have later been discovered to be child killers. But I don’t buy that all SIDS cases are infanticide.
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@William Oliver: thanks for weighing in with an expert’s opinion.
A while back, some botulism cases were ruled SIDS. Then the signs of death by botulism were better established and so that was taken out of the SIDS mix.
Some babies who have long QT intervals are suspected to be at higher risk for SIDS. Tummy sleeping for these kids could be more problematic, but because QT intervals aren’t something readily diagnosed, it’s not always immediately obvious which children would be at higher risk for tummy sleeping.
There might also be other reasons that tummy sleeping isn’t preferable for some infants with hidden developmental delays, but again - which children have these internal delays and which don’t? It’s not always obvious or even testable. So, back sleeping is safest. That some children still die while back sleeping only means that there is one more possible subset of this syndrome. But it’s slowly being chipped away at. No, babies don’t just die in their sleep; there is some reason. We just haven’t uncovered all those reasons.
From Jozet - just a lay person who once worked on a SIDS hotline and not owns a wicked Googler
http://sids-network.org/experts/suff.htm
On MSP
http://sids-network.org/experts/msp.htm
And from the authors of the book, Death of Innocents
http://sids-network.org/experts/abuse.htm
And considering the parent V knows, I can see why she’d blame the mother for everything. Also, she admits to being biased as all hell.
Similarly Freud said people project their emotions onto others, and men want to kill their fathers. His own mother married a man that resented her children from a previous marraige.
EVERYONE LIES! SE LA VI! And I don’t trust someone so equinamable that I can’t figure out where the lie is… >:o
But I do not get the appeal she holds for 8000 readers. It’s one thing to make people think, it’s another thing to attempt to do that by promoting your own brand of ignorance.
That’ll be the the last link of hers I’ll click on. (yeah, I know. not that she cares.)
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