cot death
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Previously known as cot death, Sids is the sudden and unexplained death during sleep of an otherwise healthy baby aged up to 12 months.
From BBC ● May 5, 2026
When Callan, the other striker, was grieving the death of a child to cot death he saw a sensitive side to his teammate.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 13, 2020
Briony was born in 1982; their son, Harry, two years later, but he died from cot death aged just 98 days.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 14, 2017
Another helped to cement advice that babies should be put to sleep on their backs to reduce the risk of cot death, by showing that this sleeping position did not cause any developmental delays.
From Nature ● Apr. 11, 2012
What's cheering about this - and I do hear the concerns - is that everybody's talking about cot death and we're putting it back on the agenda, he added.
From BBC ● Jan. 7, 2011
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