What is SIDS?

• SIDS strikes babies between the ages of 0 and 12 months, usually between 2 and 4 months;

• SIDS is unpredictable, unpreventable, sudden, and silent;

• SIDS is only determined after an autopsy, review of medical history, and examination of the death scene and therefore is ultimately a ‘diagnosis of exclusion’;

• SIDS is not contagious;

• SIDS is not child abuse;

• SIDS is not the result of suffocation, vomiting, colds, illnesses, or other infections;

• SIDS is not the result of an imperfect parent;

• SIDS is not the result of you not loving your child enough;

• SIDS is not your fault.