VA: Coming Down With a Bad Case of SIDS
Mar 12th, 2008
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Original post: Coming Down With a Bad Case of SIDS
I’m passing along an article that came to my inbox. I was able to read through 2 pages but then their server went down for maintenance. The title made me go there ” How I Learned to Stop Hating My Mother”. Don’t think it’s possible in this lifetime but was curious.
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/features/learned-stop-hating-mother?ecd=wnl_lbt_030508
Your “friend” has a bad case of teh stoopuds. SIDS is the “PC” name for “crib death”, not infanticide, which is baby killing. SIDS is a sudden, unexplained death, not related to any discernable cause, not shaking, other abuse etc. It is a full-blown tragedy (as opposed to your friend, who is a tragedy in her own right, but not full-blown.)
To call something PC has become a way of saying, “You’re a stupid liberal, who cares more for appearances than facts.” Obviously, it helps if you are right.
It’s not the “friend” who has the stoopids, it’s V - she’s the one who called infanticide SIDS. Honestly, this is her most idiotic post yet. Maybe the flu fried her brain or something.
Question?
How can you be PC and use the word “retard?”
Friend
Moron
V
Placating moron rather than engage in long conversation that may cause her head to explode.
Well “V” for someone who preaches about doing your homework and researching thoroughly, you sure fucked up this time. You best look up S.I.D.S in the ol’ Wiki or Google and do some reading. As a father who lost his second son at 39 days old, I don’t need some ass implying that either my Wife or I KILLED our son.
“M”
Ouch. I think that’s exactly what V was implying. Thought provoking in that it makes you wonder if there’s a subconscious process involved, but hurtful if like MCS you’ve lost a child to SIDS.
I found this article intellectually stimulatiing - NOT!
I agree with other posters that (the often spot-on) V got it totally wrong. An interesting story about SIDS here:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020502_000730.html
The original article is here:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2002/pulpit_20020425_000431.html
MCS, your wife killed your son. Sorry pal. The only reason these deaths are unexplained is people don’t want to believe the mother could do such a thing, so they don’t investigate. Instead they blame it on magic.
*whoosh*
It’s a joke, come on.
stan, that doesn’t make any sense. SIDS is diagnosed by exclusion. If someone did something to harm the child, they would be able to pick that up during the autopsy. People definitely do investigate when a child dies unexpectedly.
You guys are the ones who are morons. She was being sarcastic, saying that people kill their babies and blame it on SIDS to get away with it. We don’t need a lesson on SIDS here folks, we’re all smart enough (including V) to know what it is. Come on now, you’ve never wondered if a SIDS baby was actually killed by its parents? So easy to play that one off!
SIDS babies stop breathing. It wouldn’t be that hard to suffocate a newborn and blame it on SIDS. Autopsy would show suffocation which is exactly what SIDS is. They.Stop.Breathing.
Grow a brain and take a joke people.
Sunny:
They don’t do real investigations into unexplained infant deaths unless they have other reasons to expect foul play. Maybe you’re watching too much CSI Miami, but they don’t autopsy every person who dies.
And even in the rare cases when they do, the investigation usually goes something like this:
Cop: “Your baby stopped breathing last night. Did you smother it with a pillow?”
Mother: “How dare you!”
Father: “I wasn’t even home, but there’s no way my wife could ever do something like that.”
Cops: “Must have been a SIDS pillow.”
Case closed.
Whoops, I forgot the other scenario:
Cops: “Who smothered your baby?”
Mother: “I think a black guy did it. A big black guy. Very scary looking black guy.”
Cops: “Makes sense. Larry, round me up some niggers.”
I lost a sibling to what might have been written off as SIDS, but documented symptoms during his life warranted further investigation. It turned out that he was born with multiple avenous malformations in the brain, a handful of which resulted in the cerebral hemorrhages that killed him. He’s dead and doesn’t care if I joke about what happened. Sometimes people even try to allay their guilt at laughing at my jokes by donating to March of Dimes.
Sometimes the lulz writes itself. And sometimes it’s just funny to tell people that my first little brother was weak, so we killed him and ate his bones. (After we tried to sell him to the white slavers, of course.)
Stan, you’re a cop, right? Done multiple investigations, of unexplained infant death? Want to pony up some reality?
2 years as a cop, and I can tell you for absolute certain you have your head up your ass about how police handle infant death.
Like the poster said, it’s about exclusion. It’s VERY easy for a coroner to spot asphyxiation, even in a newborn. And cops are taught to look for signs. Go get a clue or two.
Omg u guys. I killed ur babies. Sry.
I originally interperted it as retarded “mothers” of retarded babies and my not so kind comment was going to be that the mentally handicapped mothers are more nurturing than the smart mothers, but alas, I read it wrong.
:P
I was a student interested in Pathology and witnessed several infant autopsies. Everyone here has a point. Most, but not all, unexplained deaths are granted autopsies. SIDS is not an COD. Detecting suffocation in an infant can be very difficult, even with microscopic examination of capillaries in mucosa. The petichiae are just not always there. Its a very tricky situation.
Seems odd to me that about 10 years of the AAP’s “Back to Sleep” program led to a decrease in SIDS cases of >50%. Who knew that having parents roll their infants onto their backs for sleep would prevent so many parents from killing those same kids?
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/sids/
*rolleyes*
Sure, intentional harm must factor into some cases. The data doesn’t support the claim that this holds true for all, most, or even many.
And as John Beaty alluded to, unexpected infant deaths are investigated with autopsies. This is routine. As a pediatrician, I have been to several, and they were all quite thorough. I’d rather not attend any more, but I’m sure I will.
A pretty picture from the NIH that juxtaposes (increasing) percentage of kids sleeping on their backs with (decreasing) percentage of SIDS events:
http://www.nichd.nih.gov/sids/upload/SIDS_rate_backsleep_03.pdf
It is quite a strong relationship.
Again, this does not account for all cases, but it does account for such a substantial amount that it’s untenable to attribute SIDS in general mostly to deliberate infanticide.