SIDS & Infant Death Survival Guide: Information and Comfort for Grieving Family & Friends & Professionals Who Seek to Help Them
by Joani Nelson Horchler
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More than 5,000 American babies die of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) annually, & each death is estimated to significantly affect at least 100 people. Written for SIDS survivors by SIDS survivors, this comprehensive 18-chapter anthology (with author-written chapter introductions) gears insightful survival suggestions specifically to mothers, fathers, siblings, grandparents, child-care providers, police officers, emergency medical responders, health professionals, counselors, clergy, & show more funeral directors. It details what everyone should know about SIDS & discusses the new U. S. campaign to teach mothers to place babies to sleep on their sides or backs. Actor Lloyd Bridges, who lost a baby to SIDS, wrote the foreword. Other contents include chapters on anger, guilt, surviving anniversaries, home monitoring of subsequent babies, dreams & premonitions, & moving forward. In the siblings chapter, MISTER ROGER'S NEIGHBORHOOD's producer Hedda Sharapan discusses talking with children about death. Endorsed by such authorities as Marta Brown, chairman, SIDS International; Dr. Thomas Keens, SIDS researcher, USC's School of Medicine; Mary McClain, president, Assn. of SIDS Program Professionals; Dr. James McKenna, SIDS researcher & anthropologist, Pomona College; Beverley DeBruyn, executive director, Canadian Foundation for Study of Infant Deaths. Individuals order from nonprofit SIDS Educational Services, 2905 6th Ave., Cheverly, MD 20785. Phone 301-773-9671; FAX 301-322-2620. Book Trade order from Independent Publishers Group, 814 N. Franklin St., Chicago, IL 60610. Phone 1-800-888- 4741. show lessTags
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