crib death

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SIDS, or crib death, refers to the sudden death of an infant under the age of 1, usually during sleep and for unknown reasons, though often related to suspected genetic or environmental factors.

From Washington Post • Mar. 13, 2023

Around the time of his funeral, Koerner learned, from a cousin, that he had been the eldest not of two boys but of five: three brothers had been lost to crib death, stillbirth, or miscarriage.

From The New Yorker • Dec. 10, 2018

But it also caused him to ache for his own baby, a son who died a crib death 16 years earlier and who also was without a headstone.

From Washington Times • Feb. 7, 2015

SIDS, also known as "crib death," is defined as a sudden and unexplained death - usually during sleep -- in a baby less than one year old.

From Reuters • Jun. 13, 2011

They had two daughters, but one died of crib death.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2011