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Judy writes:
I remain confused about terminology though. If a baby has a drugged mom
who rolls over and smothers baby, or a smoking dad whose fumes mess with
baby's breathing and it shuts down for too long, or baby somehow gets his ribs
trapped between the bed and a wall in an unsafe situation, and that baby
dies, how is that "unexplained"? I guess my brain is just too overloaded to
grasp this?
You are certainly correct to question those scenarios as being unexplained.
You are using the word "unexplained" rather than "unexpected" or what is
called SUDI (Sudden Unexpected Death of an Infant). The article states:
"Concurrently, other causes of sudden unexpected infant death that occur during
sleep (sleep-related deaths), including suffocation, asphyxia, and
entrapment, and ill-defined or unspecified causes of death have increased in
incidence, particularly since the AAP published its last statement on SIDS in
2005." I wonder what might be some examples of an "ill-defined or unspecified
cause of death in an infant?" Would these be "Sudden Unexplained Infant
Death or "SUID." So vague and confusing. James McKenna has talked about this
in his many presentations.
Mary-Jane Sackett, RN, IBCLC, RLC
Pittsfield, MA
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