Every parent with an infant has experienced this, I think — awakening
one morning with a strange feeling, and then suddenly realizing that
strange feeling is that of being well rested. Because the baby did not
wake you up during the night (and for us nursing moms, that realization
is helped along by the presence of what appears to be two very full
water balloons on our chests). We leap out of bed and fly to the crib
(or, as I and at least a few of my friends cop to doing, make our
partners go in first) only to find our baby sleeping soundly, having
finally pulled off the Holy Grail of infancy – sleeping through the
night.
But for some parents, that mad desperate rush to the side
of the crib does not end well. And as much as all the information
available about SIDS prevention has saved countless babies' lives
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