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Subject:	Re: SIDS, SUDI, SUID
From:	Melissa Senf <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:	Lactation Information and Discussion <[log in to unmask]>
Date:	Thu, 20 Oct 2011 09:48:33 -0400
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I agree with what you are saying, but I have had the opposite happen in my family. My step-grandmother had a child that we believed died of SIDS. However, the doctor (in the 1930's) told the mom that she smothered her child and wrote down 'overlay' on the death certificate. My grandfather grabbed the doctor and threatened to kill him if he didn't change the death certificate. He did...but this episode left a big imprint on my family. I was scolded for wanting to sleep with my kids.
My how times are changing.
Melissa Senf

>>> Tina Kimmel <[log in to unmask]> 10/19/2011 6:13 PM >>>
A few years ago I was asked to code some SIDS coroner's reports to
prepare them for data entry. It wasn't part of my assignment to
question the diagnosis, but I noticed that nearly every case was, to
me, explainable.

Eg a 5 week-old formula-fed baby had not been seen or fed for at
least 8.5 hours (yet another risk factor from formula feeding = the
lack of overfull breasts which awaken mom), and her GI tract and
bladder were completely empty. Despite being outside the usual age
range for SIDS, and fairly obvious dx of dehydration/starving, the
coroner called this SIDS.

Eg what looked to me from the report like an obvious reaction to a
vaccine. I took it upon myself to look up the child in the VAERS
(Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) website, and he was indeed
listed there. Yet the coroner called this SIDS.

Especially when combined with the many cases of truly unexplained
deaths which occur in a parent's bed that are called death by
overlaying, I am totally sceptical of any statistics about SIDS,
SUDI, or SUID.

Tina Kimmel, PhD, MSW, MPH, mom and grandmom
California

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