#Sudden Infant

[unaturalhistory]

Sudden Infant Feat: Joke Lanz & Roger Rotor – Catholic Boys In Heavy Leather

[ozkar-krapo]

V/A

TADPOLE "In" / SUDDEN INFANT "Sperm Children" // BRUME "Love me tender" / TADPOLE "Out"

(7 "EP. Tadpole. 1992)

[bunnightwing]

What's a guy gotta do to spontaneously die in their sleep. Asking for a friend

[bedtime-broadcast]

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TW: Sudden Infant Death (syndrome)

There was a loud, painful wail that shook the very foundation of the Morningstar Manor — hell even all of the Pride Ring.

Lucifer was devastated.

His son, Liam Morningstar, was dead.

His body was cold and stiff, lifeless. Lucifer didn’t know what had happened. He woke up like normal, checked over his son, and thought he was sleeping peacefully.

But Liam always made the softest little bleat-like snores in his sleep.

But the baby was as silent as a grave.

Lucifer picked him up and felt the stiff, yet limp, baby’s body. When Lucifer realized what was happening he immediately tried to resurrect his baby.

Mouth to mouth.

Magic transfers.

But nothing was working.

What got Lucifer to cry out was seeing his baby’s eyes. His eyelids were somehow open, and for a moment that gave Lucifer hope.

But that hope immediately died when he saw them clouded over with his pupils blown out.

His son has died in his sleep…

Liam had been dead all night.

Lucifer held his baby’s body close, crying out in sheer sorrow. He remembered feeding the boy to his chest the night before, his little ear twitching with enjoyment as he made the cutest noises as he fed.

Then Lucifer gave Liam a diaper change and laid him in his crib like he did every night.

But his son fell asleep and never woke up again — leaving the King of Hell praying to those who had banished him to return his son. Even praying to his father, God.

But like always, his prayers were unanswered.

And now he’s alone in his manor with anyone to care or help.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Matt Ford at TNR (05.13.2025):

The Trump administration has often claimed that it wants to increase the nation’s fertility rate. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported last month that the rate is at roughly 1.6 births per woman. That is higher than in other major developed countries—South Korea has dropped to a fertility rate of 0.75, for example—but below the replacement level of 2.1. Trump described himself as “the fertilization president” at a Women’s History Month event at the White House earlier this spring, a title he claims is apt because of his verbal support of in vitro fertilization, a practice that many other Republicans oppose on religious grounds. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the secretary of health and human services, has expressed concern about the decline in potential fertility among younger Americans. “Our fertility is dropping dramatically,” he claimed in April. “Teenagers in this country have the same testosterone levels as 68-year-old men.” (He was presumably referring to teenage boys.) JD Vance and other top Trump officials have supported the so-called “pronatalist” movement that advocates for much higher fertility rates, at least among certain groups of people. These concerns are shaping policy areas that might seem unrelated at first glance. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy ordered his department in February to prioritize infrastructure projects in “communities with marriage and birthrates higher than the national average.” Most of the decline in the U.S. fertility rate can be attributed to the sharp decline in teenage pregnancies, something that would have been seen as a policy victory by conservatives a generation ago. Increasing fertility rates is a vexing issue that countries in Asia and Europe have struggled with for the last 20 years with little success.

Nonetheless, if the Trump administration is actually serious about the nation’s fertility rate, it might want to stop doing numerous things that will likely kill American children. In April, for example, the Trump administration shuttered the communications office for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, one of the components of the National Institutes of Health, and laid off its workforce. Among the office’s responsibilities was coordinating the federal government’s participation in the Safe to Sleep program, which aims to encourage parents to adopt safe-sleep practices for newborns and infants. The Safe to Sleep program emerged in the 1990s as researchers sought to identify the causes of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, which killed thousands of infants every year at the time. While the specific causes of SIDS are still being studied, the program has helped persuade millions of parents to avoid practices that might seem safe or normal—bed-sharing, using blankets or stuffed animals, letting infants sleep at night in car seats and strollers—but actually contribute to suffocation risks. Those changes and others helped reduce SIDS deaths by 50 percent by the 2010s. It is hard to imagine a better use of taxpayer funds than preventing infant deaths—or one more aligned with so-called “pronatalist” interests. Instead, the Trump administration appears poised to destroy how federal public health agencies track infant mortality and maternal health problems and communicate about them to Americans. Kennedy began his tenure at HHS by proposing a radical internal restructuring of the department, shuttering numerous programs, and directing layoffs for roughly 20,000 employees. Among the casualties are the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, or PRAMS, which collects data on prenatal and postpartum care across the country to improve policymaking on maternal and infant health. The Washington Post reported that HHS also dismantled programs that collect fertility and reproductive health statistics, with vast downstream implications for research that relies on official numbers for issues ranging from IVF success rates to postpartum depression. Personnel can be policy as well. Kennedy, the nation’s top public health official, has a long history of spreading doubt and confusion about childhood vaccinations for personal gain. After the island nation of Samoa paused its measles vaccination program in 2019 after a fatal vaccination mishap, Kennedy flew in to encourage government officials there to engage in a “natural experiment” to see what would happen if they went without vaccinating their children against the disease. The resulting measles epidemic killed at least 83 children and sickened thousands of others.

While seeking Senate confirmation earlier this year, Kennedy downplayed his anti-vaccine views and told senators that he would leave current childhood immunization schedules intact. That pledge appears to be hanging by a thread. Kennedy and his allies are reportedly planning to remove the Covid-19 vaccine from the schedule. They also plan to require that future vaccine studies include unvaccinated control groups, a practice that health experts had long opposed because it was unethical. Some of Kennedy’s critics have described his policies and rhetoric, especially toward people with autism and vaccines, as “eugenic” in nature. After overseeing a measles outbreak in Texas that killed two children earlier this year, he recently suggested in a Fox News interview that the measles vaccine was unnecessary because the disease had a low mortality rate.

The Trump Regime’s policies do NOT have the best interests of children in mind.

[mmelolabelle]

laws of sibling dynamics dictate that in some slightly healthier universes that Rhaenyra and Aegon may not like each other, they would definitely default to being on the same side in family conflicts because they’re the Oldest and the shared experience “lol remember that time dad actually tried to parent us then gave up? wild” of it all

[le-agent-egg]

do you ever just find a fic of your blorbo where they are so mischaracterized that you feel like you wanna die

[chaoticbuggybitchboy]

How do any humans live ever what the fuck

[alpaca-clouds]

How Families Slept

You know what? Just when I wrote about the medieval living situations I remembered one comment I got on a fanfic a while ago. It was one of my Castlevania and it featured the golden trio having their infant daughter sleep with them in the same bed, when the child was not able to sleep in her crib.

The comment person got really angry about that. How do I dare writing about parents co-sleeping with their infant? Have I never heard about sudden infant death syndrome?

To which I say: "... You are aware that we have evolved to co-sleep with out infants, right?"

You guys know the saying: "Sleeping like a baby?" Have you guys ever wondered what was up with that, given that babies' are well known for... not sleeping very peaceful and keeping their parents awake?

Yeah, the saying originally went: "Sleeping like a baby at mother's bossom." Because it turns out... babies can sleep very peacefully, if they are sleeping in the arms of their parents. Not always. And toothing will most certainly still rob the parents' sleep.

This is the reason why to this day most infants around the world still sleep in the same bed as their parents. Most infants historically slept in the same bed as their parents, given that cribs were expensive - and that nobody had additional rooms for kids to sleep in either. So, yeah, they just slept in the same bed as the parents.

Does co-sleeping heighten the risk of SIDS? Yeah. But only very, very slightly. Meanwhile co-sleeping has also a lot of positive effects on the health of the infant.

To be honest, that comment got me really annoyed, because it just shows just US-centrism. Because while yeah, nurseries are common enough in Western Europe, too, this obsession with keeping the kids out of their parent's bed and forbidding (and shaming people for) co-sleeping is very much an US thing.

As I said: Yes, it co-sleeping slightly increases the chance of sudden infant death. But... It is still about as likely as getting hit by lightning. At least with an otherwise healthy child.

We are still animals. As such we have not evolved to have kids in a whole ass seperate room from the parents.

Not so fun fact, though: The origin of cribs is, basically, that during medieval times often enough during famines parents would smolder their infants to death and then say: "Oh, it was an accident." Which is why the church passed a decree that kids should sleep in a crib. So that parents could no longer claim "an accident".

[alanshee-keeper-of-realms]

I'm writing the moment Mickey and Minnie find their first child Anne at 3 months and I've had to take several breaks,

I wish I could embrace all parents who've gone through this, even from an outsider a writers perspective this, this should never happen

I wish I could hug you all and I hope you all find peace, for those that wish for a rainbow I pray you get them.

[furryprovocateur]

a 91% missed for me. You have got. to be fucking kidding me.

[what-fine-marble]

was riverdaleposting on my finsta a while back and my gf replied saying something about “do you have anyone to talk to about this? is that something you need?” and i have honestly never felt more cared for in my life like ?? you understand my need to talk about these things?? and you’re making sure that need is being met?? which is not only so considerate but helps me reframe my investment in my interests from something negative or compulsive to something normal and necessary to my self-regulation? wtf?

[kvetcher-in-the-rye]

Between 1990 & 2019, 75% of SIDS occurred within 7 days of vaccination. 12% on day 1, 25% on day 2.

https://thefreethoughtproject.com/vaccine-safety-health/sids-and-the-vaccine-connection-decades-of-suppression

[zajef37]

The name “sudden infant death syndrome” is so irrationally funny to me. like yeah that’s what happens. the infant suddenly dies. syndrome