>The district officer
>(who attended the scene and with whom he was discussing this) described
>both deaths as overlying deaths. My question to my husband was "how does he
>know?" My bet is that that this could well be an assumption but that it will
>be noted on the case sheets as inadvertent smothering by a parent (and will
>go to the coroners court with that information)

At a conference earlier this year, Jim McKenna described a meeting on infant
death (I believe) at which someone said, "How do we know these babies
weren't already dead, and *that's* why they didn't respond normally to
overlying?"  He said there was absolute silence in the room.  That
possibility hadn't occurred to anyone.
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC  Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com

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