Articles of category "Sudden Infant Death Syndrome"

Infant death is a horrible, horrible event to have to survive. There are many reasons that this sad fate occurs, and none of them make sense to a sad reasonable rational parent that grieves the loss of a child. Unfortunately, the fact is, you still have to get up the next day and find a way to go on. Many people find philosophy and religion, others drink or drug or some other form of suffering.

SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, is a term applied to the unexplained death of an infant between the ages of one month old and one year old...Sixty-one percent of SIDS victims are male infants, and the period between two months of age and four months old pose the highest risk for a SIDS induced death. Typically, the death of a little one is labeled SIDS after the completion of three steps fails to turn up any compelling counter evidence...