As I understand it, SIDS stats from another country will not be  
helpful. Rates
vary a great deal due to cultural factors (like bedsharing) as well as  
the fact that
SIDS is defined as an unexplained infant death during sleep. If you  
can explain
it, it's not SIDS, and some physicians are better at figuring out  
causes of
death (or live illnesses) than others. There are great variations in  
SIDS rates
in the US as well, partially for this reason. Depends on who is doing  
the
diagnosing of the cause of death.

If I am mistaken in this, I hope someone with more expertise than I will
set me (and us) straight.

Naomi Bar-Yam

On Jun 27, 2008, at 12:01 AM, LACTNET automatic digest system wrote:

> Perhaps we nee=
> d to simply find SIDS stats from another country. We have a young  
> man from =
> Korea living with us this summer and he'd never heard of a baby  
> monitor. Wh=
> en I explained its use, he still seemed very confused: "But... Don't  
> babies=
> sleep with the parents?" he asked.

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