~ CHILD DEVELOPMENT and PUBLIC HEALTH~

I chose Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. I chose this topic because there are so many parents lose their babies due to this known death. I've read many articles and my text book on this commonly known death and still can't believe there is no true cause for this type of death. I must say indeed this is a very scary way to lose a infant. Most people say this death can come from laying a baby on their stomach but reseachers hadn't stated that cause.I've had friends in the past to experience SIDS. It was mentioned that ifant mortality woldwide has plummeted in recent years. Several reasons were stated that has been already put into place which are advances in newborn care, better nutrition, access to clean water, and widespread immunization. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is a situation in which a seemingly healthy infant, at least two months of age, suddenly stops breathing and dies unexpectedly while asleep. If an autopsy is done carefully investigations find no apparent cause of death, the diagnosis is SIDS (Byard, 2004).  In 1990 in the United States, about 5,000 babies died of SIDS about 1 infant in 800 Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and every European and South American nation experienced a similar rate.It also helps to be born in the spring, because babies born then have fewer bedclothes in the summer, when they are 2 to 6 months old the time of highest SIDS deaths (Li et al., 2006).

References
 The Developing Person Through Childhood
Chapter 5, “The First Two Years: Biosocial Development