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My Daughter Died Mysteriously and Suddenly. It’s Hard to Watch Scientists Search for an Answer.
Slate ^ | 2/1/24 | Melissa M. Monroe

Posted on 02/09/2024 12:29:08 PM PST by DallasBiff

On a hot August afternoon, I finished a call with a client as I opened the door to the room of my 2-year-old daughter, Alice. She’d slept a little longer than usual, and I needed to wake her so we could retrieve my 4-year-old daughter, Grace, from school.

I leaned over Alice in her crib, and she was stiff and blue. Bad, bad, very bad ran through my brain. I started CPR, counting two breaths per 30 chest thrusts, and somehow managed to call 911. Eventually, the paramedics arrived. They told me to stand back. I did.

Shortly after, I heard some version of “She’s gone. I’m so sorry.”

I collapsed and realized I was under Alice’s birthday banner, which I had lovingly hung 11 days prior. “She can’t be dead! She just had her birthday! She was fine! What the hell just happened?” I screamed.

I didn’t get an answer to that question. An autopsy, and testing, turned up nothing. Her death was classified as sudden unexplained death in childhood, which means that a cause of death simply cannot be determined. It’s a rare outcome that mystifies scientists—just 400 children a year are classified with SUDC after they die, though it is the fifth leading classification of death in toddlers. And rare means nothing when your child is one of the statistics.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: aidskills; died; mysteriously; sids; slate; sudden; suddendeath; suddenly; vax
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I am sorry for her loss, I know SIDS was a concern in the 60's and 70's, but it disappeared in the 80's till covid.
1 posted on 02/09/2024 12:29:08 PM PST by DallasBiff
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Shot history? Sounds like independent autopsy called for.


2 posted on 02/09/2024 12:31:49 PM PST by Reno89519 (If Biden is mentally unfit to stand trial, he is mentally unfit to be president. He needs to resign.)
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...rare means nothing when your child is one of the statistics...
3 posted on 02/09/2024 12:32:33 PM PST by ComputerGuy (Heavily-medicated for your protection)
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To: DallasBiff

They developed a lot of protocols about how babies should be positioned, bedding types, etc.


4 posted on 02/09/2024 12:32:58 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: DallasBiff

Heartbreaking stuff. An acquaintance had a 13 year old daughter. She came down with what they thought was the flu. After two weeks of illness, they went to the Doctor. Nothing conclusive. She continued to deteriorate, and was hospitalized. Within another two weeks she was gone, with nobody having been able to diagnose what was going wrong. Wrecked her folks, understandably.


6 posted on 02/09/2024 12:34:05 PM PST by drwoof
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To: DallasBiff

The article doesn’t mention the obvious.

I hope that means that no sane parent would jab a 2-year-old. But who knows really?


7 posted on 02/09/2024 12:36:53 PM PST by DarrellZero
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To: DallasBiff

In the late 70’s they advised parents to not let babies sleep on their tummies. They suggested that in some cases it could interfere with breathing, I believe. I haven’t seen that statistic that the deaths had dropped.

But I can’t even comprehend a parent vaxxing a young child with an experimental toxin.


8 posted on 02/09/2024 12:37:17 PM PST by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: Jamestown1630

But her daughter was four years old.


9 posted on 02/09/2024 12:38:18 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Oops, two years old. Her older daughter is four.

How heartbreaking. I cannot imagine the pain.


10 posted on 02/09/2024 12:38:59 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: DallasBiff

Heart-wrenchingly tragic. I cannot imagine the pain. Having said that, not one word noted about the baby’s Covid vax status. Look, I know SIDS is a very real and unexplained thing, but heaven forbid it were my child, I would leave no stone unturned and wouldn’t care one whit about politics.

Very sorry for their loss.


11 posted on 02/09/2024 12:40:09 PM PST by Obadiah
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

I was responding to DallasBiff, who mentioned SIDS. My point is that it didn’t just ‘disappear’; people learned a lot about it and came up with precautions.


12 posted on 02/09/2024 12:41:33 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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“I hope that means that no sane parent would jab a 2-year-old. But who knows really?”

I have a friend whose sister-in-law and brother-in-law are doctors... one of them Stanford-educated... and they had their 9-month-old do the mRNA covid vax. Ponder that one for a minute... an essentially untested, experimental vaccine with obviously minimal efficacy... injected into a baby... by 2 doctor parents.


13 posted on 02/09/2024 12:48:33 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: DarrellZero

If she was too then that means her mother could have been vaccinated before or during her pregnancy.


14 posted on 02/09/2024 12:49:00 PM PST by tiki
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To: DarrellZero

From the article this happened a decade ago.


15 posted on 02/09/2024 1:01:44 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: grame

This happened 10 years ago. Just what experimental toxin migh possibly been involved?


16 posted on 02/09/2024 1:02:44 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: Obadiah

Read the article. This happened 10 years ago. Not likely that any COVID issues were at play.


17 posted on 02/09/2024 1:03:40 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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To: tiki

Were people, even pregnant women being vaccinated against COVID a decade ago?


18 posted on 02/09/2024 1:04:41 PM PST by lastchance (Cognovit Dominus qui sunt eius.)
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That doesn’t matter to those who are trigger-happy at any moment to blame every illness and death they hear about on ‘the jab’.


19 posted on 02/09/2024 1:09:00 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: grame
In the late 70’s they advised parents to not let babies sleep on their tummies. They suggested that in some cases it could interfere with breathing, I believe. I haven’t seen that statistic that the deaths had dropped.

No, it was the opposite. During the 1970s one learned to treat premature babies, and one of thing one learned was that they oxygenated better if they were resting on their stomachs. From this finding pediatricians started to teach parents that their mothers and grandmothers had been all wrong letting their babies sleep on their backs. At about the same time the rate of sudden infant deaths started to increase.

It was not until some 10 - 15 years later a young pediatrician from Australia (IIRC) found evidence that it was the tummy-position that increased th risk for SIDS that the rate slowly started to decrease again. This is a sad story that the medical profession makes its best to try and forget. You have to work hard to find the historical rates of SIDS plotted from the 60s until the present.

This is how it is expressed in modern scientific papers (just one example): "In the majority of the countries, there was a rapid surge in the cases of SIDS in the early 1980s followed by a decline in the 1990s. The main reason for this dramatic deterioration [decline] in the cases was the "Back to Sleep" campaign which was set in motion by the American Academy of Paediatrics in 1994, which raised awareness regarding a healthy sleeping environment [2]."

NB that the reason for the rapid surge in cases is not stated.

20 posted on 02/09/2024 1:09:11 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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