This is interesting, particularly the visual/auditory hallucinations described in the article.
http://sids-network.org/ssg/ssgprem.htm
http://sids-network.org/ssg/ssgprem.htm
SIDS Premonitions
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Paul C. Anagnostopoulos
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What parent hasn't daydreamed about the horrors of SIDS?
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Exactly. I sure had plenty of nightmares about something happening to the baby both before and after she was born. Now that she's six months old, it's pretty much let up, but I still feel her chest to make sure she's breathing when I check on her.
If your baby actually dies, those nightmares are going to seem a lot more meaningful, if the baby is fine, you'd be more likely not to remember or at least not attach any extra meaning to them.
If your baby actually dies, those nightmares are going to seem a lot more meaningful, if the baby is fine, you'd be more likely not to remember or at least not attach any extra meaning to them.
Polling people after the fact is tainted heavily.
Polling BEFORE anything happens is also tainted. What if there's a hereditary component? There have been 'crib deaths' in my family (going back 3 generations, to grandparents siblings). If someone has a relative who has died of SIDS, of course its going to be more on their minds.
What about people who had close friends or family members who had a serious medical problem with an infant, again it would easily raise the paranoia levels (which c'mon, the worries are all there anyway).
Toss in issues with first time parents. I think it's a fair statement to say that most parents I know worried much more about their first child, on average. If they worried more about a child that was not the first, it was due to medical problems or special issues with that child. That would point to very real concerns.
And not only that, let's toss ALL this stuff out. There are alarms you can use on an infant that you believe has a higher than average chance of SIDS (if another sibling has had SIDS for example). If I were to have a child, and I had some type of omen or vision or some strong feeling of dread where I really believed that would happen, I'd get it. I wouldn't care what assurances others gave me, I'd get it for peace of mind if nothing else. Or I'd argue that perhaps somehow I'm picking up on a piece of information I'm not able to verbalize, but it's scaring me. Anyway even if its costly, it wouldn't be cost prohibitive when you weigh the factors.
They should do a poll about pregnant women and how many have nightmares that something terrible has happened to their child. I'm a woman, I don't even HAVE kids and I've had nightmares like that.
I'm more sorry than words could express that people lost their babies like that, but that 'study' just isn't close to being sound. :\
Polling BEFORE anything happens is also tainted. What if there's a hereditary component? There have been 'crib deaths' in my family (going back 3 generations, to grandparents siblings). If someone has a relative who has died of SIDS, of course its going to be more on their minds.
What about people who had close friends or family members who had a serious medical problem with an infant, again it would easily raise the paranoia levels (which c'mon, the worries are all there anyway).
Toss in issues with first time parents. I think it's a fair statement to say that most parents I know worried much more about their first child, on average. If they worried more about a child that was not the first, it was due to medical problems or special issues with that child. That would point to very real concerns.
And not only that, let's toss ALL this stuff out. There are alarms you can use on an infant that you believe has a higher than average chance of SIDS (if another sibling has had SIDS for example). If I were to have a child, and I had some type of omen or vision or some strong feeling of dread where I really believed that would happen, I'd get it. I wouldn't care what assurances others gave me, I'd get it for peace of mind if nothing else. Or I'd argue that perhaps somehow I'm picking up on a piece of information I'm not able to verbalize, but it's scaring me. Anyway even if its costly, it wouldn't be cost prohibitive when you weigh the factors.
They should do a poll about pregnant women and how many have nightmares that something terrible has happened to their child. I'm a woman, I don't even HAVE kids and I've had nightmares like that.
I'm more sorry than words could express that people lost their babies like that, but that 'study' just isn't close to being sound. :\
Boy howdy, there is nothing like being pregnant or having kids to make you have weird dreams and other worries, so I don't find that article all too impressive in a 'psychic' way.
You could log onto any pregnancy board and find dreams and fears as a common topic of discussion. I can imagine how someone would think that the thoughts were a premonition, if tragedy struck, but that is probably not really the case. These kind of thoughts are pretty normal in parenting.
Personally, I had many wild dreams and thoughts about my children- especially my son who was a seriously ill baby ($740,000 worth of ill). I dreamed I lost him in the meat counter at a grocery store, that he fell out of a window (inspired by Eric Clapton's tragic loss), and that he was eaten by "Tar-Tar turtles" among other things. I don't recall having any SIDS like dreams or worries, but he was monitored for a year or two.
You could log onto any pregnancy board and find dreams and fears as a common topic of discussion. I can imagine how someone would think that the thoughts were a premonition, if tragedy struck, but that is probably not really the case. These kind of thoughts are pretty normal in parenting.
Personally, I had many wild dreams and thoughts about my children- especially my son who was a seriously ill baby ($740,000 worth of ill). I dreamed I lost him in the meat counter at a grocery store, that he fell out of a window (inspired by Eric Clapton's tragic loss), and that he was eaten by "Tar-Tar turtles" among other things. I don't recall having any SIDS like dreams or worries, but he was monitored for a year or two.
I'll bet that every pregnant woman has bad dreams about something bad happening to her baby. There is nothing like fluctuating hormones and discomfort to get the dream juices flowing.
I had a particularly vivid dream about my daughter when I was pregnant with her. In the dream she fell through a hole in the floor of a building under construction while running away from me. She was about 2 in the dream. It was so intense, I woke up crying and for a few moments thought it had really happened. The really interesting thing is that I didn't even know the sex of my baby, the the child in my dream was wearing a dress. Gee, I must be psychic.
I'll believe it if these guys actually ask all pregant women or couples about bad dreams before or shortly after the birth. If they find a correlation then it might be something to look into further.
I had a particularly vivid dream about my daughter when I was pregnant with her. In the dream she fell through a hole in the floor of a building under construction while running away from me. She was about 2 in the dream. It was so intense, I woke up crying and for a few moments thought it had really happened. The really interesting thing is that I didn't even know the sex of my baby, the the child in my dream was wearing a dress. Gee, I must be psychic.
I'll believe it if these guys actually ask all pregant women or couples about bad dreams before or shortly after the birth. If they find a correlation then it might be something to look into further.