# Helping a 10-week-old infant (and parents) sleep at night

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-10-week-old-infant-and-parents-sleep-at-night/530312>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 24, 2010, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-10-week-old-infant-and-parents-sleep-at-night/530312 "2010-02-24T21:11:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2016, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helping-a-10-week-old-infant-and-parents-sleep-at-night/530312/42 "2016-08-19T19:09:28Z")

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> [@TokyoBayer](#):
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> Oh my god. Someone’s kid died.
> 
> In eight years, there were 515 deaths. So about 65 deaths a year.
> 
> In 1997, there were about 3,881,000 babies born in the US. This is approximatey 0.0016% of the births.
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> Yup. 99.9984% of the babies were OK.
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> BUT SOMEONE DIED! :eek:

Yeah, This is on par with the number of babies killed by family pets. And I don’t see anyone campaigning to ban them.

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