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Please excuse my insensitivity for Paul, but hearing the story I wonder if the baby suffocated in its sleep, e.g. By rolling into a bad position as is not uncommon in young infants. Is it possible to tell the difference? Don't ever intimate such a thing to Paul of course. The only thing worse than losing a child is losing a child to something preventable by the parent.

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No. Don’t Hacker News back-to-first-principles this. A child dying is a tragedy, not a chance to second guess it like it’s a website going down.

Your post is ghastly.

I disagree. If you don't get to the root cause, no matter how uncomfortable, then you don't learn what you can from the tragedy and that just compounds the loss. Not that I really expect to get to the bottom here, but I can't suppress that curiosity even perhaps when it's warranted.

You’re not doing root cause analysis on infant mortality. You’re guessing at a baby’s death in the comment section on the internet. Just stop.

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Autopsy was that the child fell asleep so deep he simply stopped remembering to breathe.

Thanks for the insensitivity though ;-)

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