There was a lot more SIDS before because back then people including doctors advised parents to let infants sleep on their stomach.

A lot of research went into solving SIDS and once the recommendations changed to always make infants sleep on their backs, SIDS plummeted.

Not so random it seems: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-05-08/sydney-researchers-fi...

> An overwhelmed parent who is at the end of their rope just snaps and smothers the baby to make the crying stop

Except that there is exactly zero evidence to support this.

Those sort of injuries would be as readily apparent as if you'd run the child over with a lorry, and they are absent.

A pillow placed over an infants face produces the same injuries as running it over with a lorry? Either that is one soft lorry or you mistook the tyre for a pillow.

Surely all the depressed mothers in the moment figured out how to cover their traces as well, all coordinated through the hivemind.

1) Maybe this is the case, but what reason is there to assume that the mother is the culprit?

2) Does a detailed CSI-level investigation take place when an infant dies of an apparent SIDS death? I'm sure the parents are delicately asked about what happened for somebody to fill out the paperwork, but if there's no obvious bruising or broken bones or anything, how intense is an actual investigation?

1) I used it purely for satirical purposes.

2) Occam’s razor. I will give you that sleeping with newborns in bed and accidentally smothering them happens all too often, but anything more malicious can in my opinion be safely discarded, because parent’s killing their child require way more presupposition and proof would be on your side.

If a heavy, dense pillow is placed over an infants face without applying force I am sure it could smother the baby without leaving any injury. Of course an autopsy will reveal asphyxiation but no injury could leave the door wide open for an accidental death ruling.

Yeah, there's really distinctive patterns of bruising.

It's obvious instantly.

You sure have no clue about the topic and latest research into it, just wildly speculating about random paranoid brainfarts.

This is how internet rumors begin.

I wont repeat what others stated, just point out that reactions to your post reflect well just how ridiculous things you wrote.