I think I have posted about this before, but I also have concerns about whether some of these cases recorded as "overlaying" are actually cases of infanticide. Here in Ontario, the provincial coroner-in-chief decided to review all the autopsies of babies certified as dying of SIDS over a period of two years. In a significant percentage of cases, the cause of death was changed to suffocation and in several cases people were charged with the child's death. And I know personally of two cases where a previous history of child abuse made everyone very suspicious when a baby was brought to the hospital, dead, and the parent reported accidentally rolling over on the baby while sleeping. How do you determine, medically, the difference between a baby who was rolled over on accidentally and a baby who was deliberately smothered? There was not enough evidence to prosecute, and these deaths join the "overlaying" statistics. But almost everyone I know who was involved with these cases, and knew the background, felt very suspicious. Teresa Pitman Oakville Ontario *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html