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[–] [deleted] 5 pts

I'm a new mother that had a baby about 7 months ago. I'm living with two supportive roommates and a loving husband. Even with help I feel like I struggle to raise even one child. It's hard getting enough sleep even as a stay at home mom.

It did make me ponder if SIDS is a scapegoat for well meaning parents or mother's with postpartum depression. It also made me wonder about vaccines. We didn't get the baby any vaccines. He's a non patented baby, he's never gotten sick and he's huuuuge!

I am tired and scrolling through poal and saw your comment so I thought I'd drop a comment since it's something I thought about in passing too.

[–] 2 pts

There's a fair bit of evidence that a good chunk of SIDS deaths are from infants sleeping in the same bed as the mother, particularly for mothers who're obese/drugs/etc.

It's strikingly uncommon for healthy weight mothers who dont cosleep, likely because it's "Hey hubby, can you keep an eye on our baby while I nap" instead of a single mom faceplanting into bed in a donut, booze, and work-exhauation induced haze followed by rolling over and suffocating the poor baby.

[–] 1 pt

There's really no increase in SIDS risk for infants who bedshare with mom under the right circumstances. Exclusively breast fed- no bottle- normal weight mom and baby, no substances used, firm mattress, common sense. Most bed sharing deaths are infants bed sharing with siblings or on a chair or couch instead of a bed or with a mother under the influence

Oh, babies are damned stressful and lack of sleep makes one insane. ALL parents know sleep is the first casualty of being a parent but it gets better. The upside is before you know it they are grown up and you'll miss all that stuff.

I thought a career, an apprentice to be a pipefitter, would prepare me for the physical toll of carrying the baby and mental toll of not sleeping but it turned out i was very wrong