When my toddler was a baby, I lived in fear of sudden infant death syndrome. The thought that a child,
my child,
could just die from no apparent malady, affliction or action and there
was a chance, albeit slim, that she'd just suddenly stop breathing,
totally freaked me out. I like it when there are reasons and answers.
But the mystery of how or when SIDS may strike is one that is a
haunting fear in paranoid parents like me.
When my daughter
was an infant, I’d go to her room various times in the night, just to
make sure she was breathing. Fortunately, she always was. But the fear
still lingered. Had I known about this new study...
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