Pam writes:

<< Joanne,  The Journal Of Pediatrics, May 1991 has a USA mathematical model
 for 1989 deaths.  That put the infant mortality rate from formula at 4 per
 1000.  I don't know if that is recent enough for you.  The last time I saw
 USA birth numbers, I multiplied it out to 10,000 babies dying every year. >>

While I haven't seen this particular study, would the infant mortality rate
be 4/1000 TOTAL infants, or 4/1000 of infants who have died -- which would
mean that x/1000 infants who have died died from SIDS, x/1000 who died died
from car accidents, x/1000 who died died from bacterial meningitis....

4/1000 TOTAL infants seems like an awful lot to me.

Jan Barger, RN, MA, IBCLC in rainy Wheaton

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