January 2012 Moms
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Nervous about SIDS :(
Last night was rough. I wake up at three to hear DD coughing and choking and gasping. Her reflux has been worse lately. I fed her which seemed to help(which seemed counter intuitive to me) and she went back to sleep. I however was up worrying about her choking in her sleep. Dh heard about three SIDS incidents in the last week and so I'm worried about that all over again too. After laying there worrying, dd starts laughing in her sleep! It was possibly the cutest thing i have heard in my life.I was so emotional I almost lost it. At least she was having sweet dreams 
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Re: Nervous about SIDS :(
Surprisingly, I haven't worried too much about SIDS (because I worry about everything) although it does still freak me out when DS is sleeping soundly and doesn't make a noise. Sometimes I still have to peek in on him. I did start worrying about suffocation this morning, however because when I dropped DS off at daycare I saw another baby in his crib sleeping with a blanket completely over his head, except for the very top. There was another baby in her crib on her tummy with a blanket over her up to her middle. They do have a blanket in all the cribs and it made me wonder if DS is getting covered up when he goes down for a nap. He's able to pull things away from his face now, but it still scared the crap out of me.
Just a quick reminder... the chance of SIDS is currently approximately 1 in 2000. To re-frame that number, the rate of mortality for having a tummy tuck is between 1 in 600 and 1 in 2000.
I know it's something that we're all really scared of, mostly because by definition, there is no way to predict it and nothing that can be done to absolutely prevent it. But it is actually really rare.
Thank you for those stats - that actually does make me feel a little better.
I am also in that category of people that are really nervous about SIDS and cannot wait to be able to relax about it.