This makes my heart happy and heavy, SIDS is horrid and I can't believe they found what caused it (I mean I can its right there) thank you for sharing. This is huge news.
the lead researcher having lost her child to it and decided at that point that she was going to find the cause is some impressive determination and now hopefully others won't have to go through that
I remember when most people were thinking it was about the sleeping position of the baby, and people would argue over what the 'safe' sleeping position the baby had to be in was, so it'll be so much better for parents to have real information instead of superstition and guesswork
this makes so much sense, especially if you take into account the whole prospect of "aborted SIDS" where parents walked in, saw their babies purple, and managed to rouse them back to wakefulness with external stimuli
i have two small children. there have been many nights i stayed up just watching them sleep, noticed their breathing patterns going wonky, but the second i touched their back or took an audible deep breath next to their ears, it seemed to jumpstart them back on track
i got my kids the book "i love you forever" where the mom creeps on her kid p much every night and just wants to hold him (it's not as creepy as i'm making it sound, i promise) and was like "oh this is a parent mood"
Because I'm pretty sure that's the one where by the end the mother is an old gramma and tries to sing the song again but she can't so then her son sings it for her instead and... goddammit I'm still tearing up.
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: it is that book!!! and yeah the son rocks his mom when she's too old to do the same for him, but then goes home and rocks and sings the same song to his newborn daughter and it's just
i'd like to see the study for this! I can't tell if they were able to test whether the low enzyme caused death or vice versa, because i'm not sure they can conclusively make a causal inference from that
yeah, there's an association but there's probably more processes at work. That said, the fact that they took blood at birth and not post-mortem (like what I was wondering in the article) is good methodology
and now hopefully others won't have to go through that