When my toddler was a baby, I lived in fear of sudden infant death syndrome. The thought that a child, my child, could just die from no apparent malady, affliction or action and there was a chance, albeit slim, that she'd just suddenly stop breathing, totally freaked me out. I like it when there are reasons and answers. But the mystery of how or when SIDS may strike is one that is a prevailing fear in paranoid parents like me.
When my daughter was an infant, I’d go to her room several times throughout the night, just to make sure she was breathing. Fortunately, she always was. But the fear still lingered. Had I known about this new study, I would have slept much better. A report published this month in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine states that keeping a simple fan on in your child’s room as they sleep cuts down on SIDS. (READ MORE HERE)
