Word: cribbing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could object that the fetus in the womb is as signally present in society as the child in the crib, that each are equally members of society. Yet surely the conception of "member" involves some minimal interaction. The fetus reacts to society of the outside world solely through the medium of the mother. Strictly speaking, then, society has no legal responsibility to the fetus, but rather to the mother...
...pray for your sense of the outrageous when Divine eats turd, when the houseboy violates the pregnant hostage being held in the family cellar, when you get a load of how Divine keeps her behemoth of a mother in a baby's crib. You might just find youself in unrepressed stitches. If not, look at it this way--you can finally do something you always wanted to do but were too cheap to carry out: walk out in the middle...
...weapon against crib death...
Sudden infant death syndrome is a killer that leaves no clues. Every year in the U.S., at least 8,000 babies die in their cribs with no discernible signs of distress. Crib death, as SIDS is commonly called, claims more babies between the ages of one month and one year than any other affliction. Doctors now believe that one cause is sleep apnea, the unexplained tendency of many babies to stop breathing while asleep. If that respiratory interruption continues for several minutes a baby can die of asphyxiation, unless a watchful parent rushes to shake the infant into breathing again...
...crib alarm may aid those rescues. Tested since 1973 at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, the device consists of an electrode belt strapped on a sleeping baby, and a nearby monitoring machine that blasts a 70-decibel alarm (about as loud as a smoke detector) if the baby stops breathing for 20 seconds or if its heart slows. Of 270 apnea-prone babies enrolled in the program, three died when the device failed to rouse their parents. Since then, the alarm has been made louder, and 60% of the babies have had attacks with no fatalities; 160 have graduated...