Part one of term paper
(SIDS), also known as “crib death”, claims the lives of 5,000 infants every year in the United States. It is the sudden or unexplained death of an infant in the first year of its life. It is the number one killer of babies under one year old, with 90% of cases occurring before the age of six months. SIDS claims the lifes of 5,000 infa ...

Part two of term paper
... more in the fall, winter, and early spring; (3) and the infant dies suddenly, it’s unpredictable, and occurs during sleep. #2 There are many different beliefs on what actually causes SIDS. One belief is that many of the infants that had died were born small for gestational age, the mothers of these infants were found to be smokers while they were pregnant. Secondly many of the infants were found to by lying face down at the time of their death. Another important issue that has been further inv ...