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...passed around among relatives, and sent to a convent in Seattle. She went East to Vassar (class of 1933), became a Phi Beta Kappa in her senior year, and married successively an actor called Harold Johnsrud (divorce), Edmund Wilson, the novelist-critic (divorce, one son, now 16), and finally Bowden Broadwater, an occasional writer some years her junior...
...real explanation, says Dr. Bowden, is the "appalling swiftness with which death in the form of natural diseases snatches the young." A baby may be overwhelmed in a few hours by a disease of such an "explosive" type that no symptoms are showing when the child is put to bed. Most of the explosive diseases which kill infants in bed (sometimes by suffocation) involve the upper respiratory tract, ears or heart...
Parents sometimes blame a baby's death on the fact that he was found face down. Up to the age of six months, says Dr. Bowden, nearly all babies like to sleep flat on their backs, though some can turn over at four months. As soon as he can turn over, the baby usually prefers to sleep on his face, with knees drawn up. There is no clear connection, Dr. Bowden found, between a baby's sleeping position and sudden death...
...healthy baby can take care of himself. When Dr. Bowden lowered a blanket over the face of a sleeping infant only 26 days old, the child turned his face to the side. A six-weeks-old was put face down on a mattress, and turned his head freely from side to side in sleep. At 15 weeks, a baby wrapped in a blanket and put face down on a mattress turned on his back, pushed the blanket away from his face and contentedly sucked his thumb without once waking...
...healthy baby actually being suffocated would fight for life and yell to attract attention, says Dr. Bowden. "Why," he asks, "should a healthy baby die without much fuss just because he is face downward or his face is covered? But a baby dying of natural disease might well be expected to make a quiet exit...