about sids.did you or you know anyone who had a baby die from sids?

Question

are the babys always alone sleeping when this happens.could it be possible to hold your baby while sleeping.and this happens? if it just happend would cpr work,sorry to brind up such an alful topic.i just wanted to know more about it, thankyou

what i mean by if it just happen is if you were holding your baby and they stop breathing would cpr work.

mystic.thats alful its bad enough for a baby to die in there sleep but to be holding your baby and it just dies.

Answer 1

My close friend had a baby die of SIDS and belongs to a support group. Several of the moms have had babies die in their arms, one baby wasn't even sleeping at the time. CPR doesn't work. Basically the body just shuts down, as it does in the extremely old.

Nobody knows why, or what causes it. People think that the back to sleep prevents SIDS because babies were suffocating in the mattress but that hasn't been proven. Lying on your back prevents inhalation of the the molds, dust, and chemical flame retardants that are in even the cleanest mattresses. SIDS risks are higher on second hand matresses. Also SIDS risks are higher in daycare.

"those who have witnessed SIDS say that their child simply stopped breathing."

SIDS Is:

* Unpredictable and unexpected.
* The major cause of death in infants from one month to one year of age, with most deaths occurring between two and four months of age.
* The leading cause of death in infants under the age of one, claiming more lives each year than AIDS, cancer, heart disease, pneumonia, muscular dystrophy, cystic fibrosis and child abuse combined.
* Sometimes called cot death or crib death. That is usually where the death occurs, but babies have also died in their car seats on trips, out in public places, in strollers, in bed with their parents, some infants have even died in the loving arms of their parent, and nothing could be done to save them.
* Sudden and silent.
* Something that happens to infants who were well cared for and seemed perfectly healthy and robust.
* A death that occurs quickly, often associated with sleep and with no signs of suffering.
* Determined only after an autopsy, an examination of the death scene, and a review of the clinical history.
* Designated as a diagnosis of exclusion, meaning all other known causes of death have been ruled out.
* A recognized medical disorder.
* An infant death that leaves unanswered questions, causing intense grief for parents and family members.




SIDS is not:

* Preventable. Some people believe that either doing, or avoiding, certain things will prevent SIDS. While being cautious and avoiding known risks of SIDS may lessen the odds of SIDS, there is no known factor which will prevent SIDS. The word prevent should not currently be used in association with the word SIDS.
* Predictable. There are no signs.
* A cause of pain and suffering for the infant.
* New. Sudden infant death is even referenced in the Old Testament of the Bible. 1 Kings 3:19 "And this woman's child died in the night." Some versions claim that the woman laid on her son, perhaps during Biblical times they assumed a child who died suddenly was overlaid, but some believe that this passage in the Bible is what we call SIDS today.
* Child abuse, neglected illnesses, murder or suffocation either intentional or accidental. Experts estimate that child abuse accounts for less than 5% of all the SIDS cases recorded each year. Not all SIDS deaths are legitimate. It is difficult, but not impossible to distinguish between an infant who has been accidentally or deliberately smothered and an infant who died of SIDS. It depends on the expertise of the coroner, and a pediatric pathologist should be consulted. In any case, it is uncommon for a death due to child abuse to be confused with SIDS, which is far more common than infanticide.
* Shaken Baby Syndrome.
* Apnea. Since a study conducted in 1972, the notion that apnea might cause SIDS has been largely discredited. While it is true that babies who die of SIDS stop breathing during sleep, researchers do not believe that apnea is the primary cause. With apnea, the breathing stops, but infants with apnea can be resuscitated. Many people have apnea and it has killed infants, but it is not SIDS. An apnea monitor can detect when a SIDS victim has stopped breathing, but one must realize that a SIDS victim is already dead when that happens.
* Suffocation from the ammonia in urine, although some argue that this theory explains how a healthy infant suddenly dies.
* An ill child. Often the only thing that can be seen medically wrong with a child prior to a SIDS death is a slight cold or the sniffles. Some babies were unusually fussy in the hours preceding their death, but these babies had no serious medical conditions and their deaths are a shock not only to the family but also to the physicians looking after the babies.
* Contagious or infectious.
* Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSP). Munchausen's Syndrome refers to a psychiatric disorder where patients pretend to have illnesses. Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSP) is a parenting disorder where parents, usually the mother, fabricate symptoms in their children, thus subjecting the child to unnecessary medical tests and/or surgical procedures. In some cases, the parents also inflict injury and can kill their children in the process. The diagnosis of MSP is difficult to make and is more likely a problem in apnea programs than it is in babies who have died from SIDS.
* Infant Botulism. Infant botulism and SIDS have a similar age of death demographics but the botulism is easily found in autopsy. Some believe this could however, play a role somehow.
* Hereditary.
* Caused by external suffocation.
* A near miss SIDS case. SIDS by definition can not be near or almost. Apparent Life Threatening Events (ALTE) is the proper term for these types of problems and this is a new area of pediatric research, but an almost SIDS is like an almost pregnancy, that being, impossible. It's either SIDS, which means the child died for unknown reasons, or it's something else. If the child lived, it could not be SIDS since SIDS means death and cannot be a diagnosis for a living child.
* Anyone's fault. It can not be predicted or prevented.
* A true syndrome. To call it a syndrome would mean it would have symptoms, and in the case of SIDS, death is the sole symptom.
* Something that happens to just small, weak or sickly babies. Perfectly healthy babies die of SIDS.
* Caused by minor illnesses such as colds or infections. Many infants get their first runny nose at about the same age as the peak risk age for SIDS. A SIDS victim can die with a cold, but not from a cold.
* A child choking on his or her last feeding, or caused by the type of feeding method used. A child would not be listed as a SIDS death if he or she died from choking, which would be evident on a post mortem.
* Caused by the diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus (DPT) vaccines or other immunizations. Most children get their immunizations at about four months of age, which coincides with the average age of a SIDS baby. Children who were never vaccinated have also died of SIDS. Deaths due to vaccine reactions or child abuse are not classified as SIDS deaths, however this has been implicated as a possible factor in SIDS deaths.
* Caused by smothering. If a baby was found face down or with bedclothes over the face it might be thought that smothering was the cause of death. Sometimes babies are covered by bedclothes, but others are found uncovered and free of bedclothes entirely. While it is possible for an infant to smother accidentally, this is rare. Not uncommonly the child is lying undisturbed as when last put to bed.
* Caused by allergies.
* Caused by poor, bad or uneducated parents. SIDS happens to parents of all economic, social, educational and racial groups. Some cultures do not report SIDS deaths or have no way to classify SIDS and this often leads some to say that there are no SIDS deaths in that area, which is misleading.
* The cause of every unexpected infant death

Remember - Information provided here is for general purposes only. Only your physician can provide specific diagnoses and advice tailored to your family's needs.
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Answer 2

I can't tell you how many, many hours of sleep I have lost just watching her breathing in the crib. She's ten months old and you know what? I still watch her to make sure she's breathing okay. I check on her so many times. I was super, super paranoid on top of my normal paranoia. I was a walking zombie in her first months of life. There are so many times I wake up with a start, and the first thought in my head is, "I have to check on the baby". My husband thinks this is ridiculous, and it may very well be, but it's how I am. If it happened to me, I can only hope that God can give me the strength to somehow survive the whole ordeal. I can't say I would hang myself, I'm afraid of suicide because of religious reasons, but I would certainly suffer very, very deeply. I would have to take some kind of medications, I just don't know what I would do. My heart races just thinking about it. In fact, I had a horrible scare once. I got this bad feeling, and I went to the baby's room. She was laying in bed, face down, and the lights were off. I said her name several times, She usually stirs if I say her name. But there was no stirring. When I got close to check for breathing, her eyes were wide open. I was horrified, then I yelled her name, and nothing. I grabbed her arm and kind of yanked her, and she was limp like a rag doll. My heart dropped and I immediately dialed 9-1-1. Then I turned on the light. When I turned on the light, she looked at me, and started laughing. It was creepy and disturbing. But relieving...the way my heart felt when I thought she was dead is a horrible, horrible feeling I can't describe. I really thought she was dead. I never want to feel that again.

Answer 3

We had a neighbor that lost her baby at 2 months from SIDS. With her next baby, they had a monitor on the crib to warn them if he quit breathing, just so they could perform CPR if needed.

Answer 4

I read about it and I make sure to always put my baby back to sleep and I use the wearable blanket instead of a loose one.