A team of researchers at Harvard Medical School have identified a piece of the puzzle that is SIDS, reported the Scotsman this morning.

The research team examined brain samples from 31 SIDS infants and ten who had died from other causes. The brains of SIDS babies were found to have abnormalities in nerve cells in the lowest part of the brainstem, the medulla oblongata, which regulates breathing, blood pressure, body heat and the processes involved in waking up, says the article.

Dr David Paterson, of the Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School speculated that tests to determine which babies might have …read more

When a woman becomes a mother, she becomes a worrier. It is one thing to take care of a child, it is another to worry over that little person.
Fate. Bad luck. The one irrational event.
I am going to mention SIDS now. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, also known as cot death and crib death, is the sudden death of an apparently healthy baby under the age of 12 months. It happens to less than one in one thousand babies, usually between the ages of 2 and 4 months. It happens. The fact that it does keeps parents up at night, and …read more