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alexa84 Active User, very eHealthy
February 12th, 2007
****well we just got back from her first appointment. Eveything is great!!! Smile she weighs 6lbs 13oz now! She was born 6 10 but left the hospital at 6 5 so she has gained some!! Lol her jaundice is completely gone!! It went away quicker than the doc thought it would. And she said her belly button is about to fall off already!! Shocked****

me and the doctor was talking about .S.I.D.S and she told me she had 2 to die before xmas and one died on xmas from .S.I.D.S!! The on on .Xmas...The mother rolled over on her!! I know the mother. Shes my friends sister. My friend told me that they found the baby laying in a pool of blood. Im guessing the mother didnt want to tell everyone that she rolled over on her 5 week!!
I sleep with my daughter on my chest or right at my side. I wake up at every single sounds she makes but after hearing that, that scares me so now she will be sleeping in her basinet!!
The doc said she has more to pass that way then when sleeping in a babybed! Shocked how scary is that!!

Sorry had to share that peice of info.
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annegy
replied February 12th, 2007
That is crazy....But very sad..I cant beleive that!!....

Im so worried about s.I.D.S....I couldnt even imagine what I would do if I was the reason why my baby died...I would go insane!!
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Bridget
replied February 12th, 2007
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Well it's not sids if the mother rolled over on the baby.

I try not to think about all the bad things that *could* happen because chances are they won't, so why dwell on it. It's all very sad though.

Edited to add: I do take the proper precautions to help prevent sids though.
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Bridget
replied February 12th, 2007
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Oh, and yay amelia! I'm glad she's doing so well. I was so glad when finn's umbilical stump fell off, that thing was so nasty.
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Eyes Wide Shut
replied February 12th, 2007
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Research has been done to prove that 80% of babies who died from ".S.I.D.S" had a genetic disorder that inevitably caused the death.


My baby slept on her belly for the 1st 5 months of her life. I think padding, blankets, pillows, etc have a huuuuge part in .S.I.D.S death involving suffocation.


Shoooot! I forgot to congratulate you on .Ameliaaaa!!!! I'm sooo glad her .Jaundice is gone!!! I know how scary that can be!

Sarah
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Magical Logic
replied February 12th, 2007
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Happy to hear everything is going great!





This guy I use to talk to his baby died on jan 1 it choked on its own vomit. They put they baby to bed at 930 the night before and around 10 the next morning they work up and found her dead. They were up partying all night when this happened.
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AyaMiyaki
replied February 12th, 2007
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They don't recommend co-sleeping if you're a heavy sleeper. Aaron's heavy but .I'm super-light, so she sleeps with me and he sleeps as far away from her as possible without falling out of bed.

She shouldn't have coslept if rolling onto her baby didn't wake her up.
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alexa84
replied February 12th, 2007
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I forgot to mention the reason she said the causes of sids with cosleeping is the fact that the covers could smother te baby.
But yea. Im a very light slepper. I never move or anything when shes in the bed with me. Joey sleeps on the couch cuz he rolls over constantly. So me and .Amelia has the king bed to ourselves!! Smile

that lady was also obese. I know there is nothing wrong with obese women but if I was as big as she was, I wuldnt let my baby sleep with me. I know it doesnt take much to harm a baby but it would be even mre scary for me.
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tinkinpink84
replied February 12th, 2007
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Thats good shes gaining weight back and stuff yay Smile
sids is scary, I co sleep occasionally but I am a light sleeper even the slightest like irregular snore and im up. But most of the time she ends up in the carseat and sleeps a long time in there. She doesnt particularly like her back, in the mornings when hubby is at work and she wakes up to eat I lay in bed and nurse her and she sleeps there for a few more hrs with me but I never have covers on the bed with a baby in the bed even whenjoseph was 8 mths old and he was in my bed I didnt use blankets at all. Most of the time I have to put her on the side of me that isnt near my husband hes a kinda heavy sleeper so if she end sup in bed with both us she isnt near him. I hate that im sucha light sleeper lol . I hear every little noise I mean everything.
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Bridget
replied February 12th, 2007
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alexa84 wrote:
i forgot to mention the reason she said the causes of sids with cosleeping is the fact that the covers could smother te baby.


your doctor sounds a little uneducated when it comes to sids. Sids is when a baby stops breathing in their sleep, nobody knows why but they think it's because of a brain abnormality.

If a baby dies because the blankets go over their face that would be death by smothering or suffocation.
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