"How do we know these babies weren't already dead, and *that's* why they didn't respond normally to overlying?"

Yes I totally agree.  I have often thought that that would be the scenario.  A baby will move and squirm in bed the mother responds to it in her sleep. That little dance goes on all night. But if it has already died and she lays her arm over it, it will not move and she won't respond to it and may in fact have no more awareness of it than she would a pillow. So of course by morning after the mother wakes up from a deep, deep sleep, (uninteruppted by her baby's movements) she is distraught and thinks that she has rolled over and smothered her baby.

Breastfeeding is protective of SIDS but nothing is guaranteed and some breastfed babies do still die of SIDS whether in a crib or in a bed with mom.

I never hear anyone propose banning cribs and yet the common name for SIDS is "Crib death".

Cathy Loughman RN IBCLC



At a conference earlier this year, Jim McKenna described a meeting on infant
death (I believe) at which someone said, "How do we know these babies
weren't already dead, and *that's* why they didn't respond normally to
overlying?" He said there was absolute silence in the room. That
possibility hadn't occurred to anyone.
--
Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC Ithaca, NY
www.wiessinger.baka.com



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