Reading this Ask Metafilter post about how to get an infant to sleep on his back brought me back to less than a year ago, when I was totally freaked out by a comment on some baby website about how a woman's five-month old baby, whose babysitter had swaddled him to get him to sleep, flipped over, couldn't turn back over because of his swaddle, and was dead by the time she came home. X was exactly that age when I read that.
Infants are so fragile. I'm so glad I don't have to worry about him randomly dying anymore.
That is kind of terrifying. Also all those comments from people whose infants died well after their parents thought they had passed the dangerous phase (four months?). I... can't even imagine.
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