Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Living with the grief of sudden infant death

Sheila Wayman © irishtimes.com
Every week in the Republic at least one child dies unexpectedly. Nine out of 10 of these deaths, known as Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), happen in the first year of life
“Caoimhe kept asking people when the pain was going to stop. She knows now that it doesn’t. ‘You just learn to live with it. Time is the only thing that teaches you that. It is always going to be with you and in the end you want it to be with you because not to have it would be letting go and you don’t want that
TUESDAY STARTED much like any other. Sixteen-month-old Oscar Muldoon Hennessy was up at half six, impatient to get on with the day.
His father, Noel Hennessy, took his turn to get up with him, but the good humoured toddler soon wanted his mother, Caoimhe Muldoon, in on the action.

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