Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Babies are 12 times more likely to suffer from Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) if their mother continued to both drink and smoke after the first trimester of pregnancy, compared with babies born to mothers who did not. Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is an unexpected unexplainable death of an infant who is less than 1 year of age usually occurring during sleep.