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As far as I'm aware, rolling over and suffocating is NOT SIDS. With SIDS, the cause is undetermined. This is also a weird presumption: go to bed when the kids

As far as I'm aware, rolling over and suffocating is NOT SIDS. With SIDS, the cause is undetermined. This is also a weird presumption: go to bed when the kids go to sleep and wake up early. You get the same amount of sleep and a free morning. > SIDS: A disorder marked by the sudden and unexpected death of a healthy child who is younger than one year old, usually during sleep. The cause of sudden infant death syndrome is not known. Also called crib death and SIDS

lazide 4y ago
'Unexplained' is a large portion of SIDS deaths. Folks trying to protect parents and the family from blame for 'preventable' deaths is also a thing. As SIDS is better understood, and categorization is changing (addressed in the paper I linked elsewhere) the graph showing proportions of accidental suffocation/strangulation during sleep is rising while SIDS is dropping - but both numbers are adding up to about the same. (see total SUID death rate, Figure 1) https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/1/e2022057991/188305/Evidence-Base-for-2022-Updated-Recommendations-for https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/1/e20220...
- Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
  Is this basically suggesting that all SIDS are essentially suffocation (or close to that?)
  - lazide 4y ago
    Nope, the paper goes into it. It's saying some proportion is, but it's unknown (and likely unknowable) what the actual proportion really is, for a multitude of reasons. It's unlikely to be most. There are a lot of similar issues with mortality data in general, but kids are a particularly sensitive topic. For instamce, a large portion of 'gun cleaning accidents' are suicides. How many has changed with the times and the fashions. It's possible to guesstimate approximately of course, but we'll never really know for sure unless we somehow plunked an invisible researcher over the shoulder of every person all day every day.
    - Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
      Thanks for the summary, so there is still a portion that's really unknown. And yes, I suspected it was hard to get proper data

lazide 4y ago

'Unexplained' is a large portion of SIDS deaths. Folks trying to protect parents and the family from blame for 'preventable' deaths is also a thing. As SIDS is better understood, and categorization is changing (addressed in the paper I linked elsewhere) the graph showing proportions of accidental suffocation/strangulation during sleep is rising while SIDS is dropping - but both numbers are adding up to about the same. (see total SUID death rate, Figure 1) https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/1/e2022057991/188305/Evidence-Base-for-2022-Updated-Recommendations-for https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/150/1/e20220...

Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
Is this basically suggesting that all SIDS are essentially suffocation (or close to that?)
- lazide 4y ago
  Nope, the paper goes into it. It's saying some proportion is, but it's unknown (and likely unknowable) what the actual proportion really is, for a multitude of reasons. It's unlikely to be most. There are a lot of similar issues with mortality data in general, but kids are a particularly sensitive topic. For instamce, a large portion of 'gun cleaning accidents' are suicides. How many has changed with the times and the fashions. It's possible to guesstimate approximately of course, but we'll never really know for sure unless we somehow plunked an invisible researcher over the shoulder of every person all day every day.
  - Fire-Dragon-DoL 4y ago
    Thanks for the summary, so there is still a portion that's really unknown. And yes, I suspected it was hard to get proper data