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Date: | Tue, 13 Aug 1996 18:15:55 -0400 |
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Jan Barger wrote about someone in a lecture who said: "Our coroner insists
that every baby be in his own crib because a mother thought her baby was her
pillow and threw it onto the floor & killed it."
Makes me wonder what was going on with the mother, that she would mistake her
baby for a pillow! A psychotic break? Alcohol or other intoxicant use?
Maybe she shook the baby to stop its crying and didn't want to admit it?
Someone else didn't want the baby there? I bet there's more to the story ...
I wonder if the coronor would also insist that pacifiers be banned because a
baby choked to death on one? Would he also argue against immunizations
because a baby had an adverse reaction to one? This list could go on and
on...
Linda Smith, wishing we could thoroughly compare the risk of deaths from
cribs - falling out, dangerous paint, trapping spaces, and inappropriate
mattress covers to the mystical "smothering" deaths from co-sleeping.
Dayton, OH
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