Word: infantability
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...extremes of malnourishment and indulgence. Children are so swaddled in myth and delusion that Marian Wright Edelman, director of the Children's Defense Fund in Washington, argues that Americans should try not to posture about them but instead look hard at statistics: The U.S. has the 14th highest infant mortality rate in the world; 10 million U.S. children have no regular source of basic medical care; 600,000 teen-agers a year, most of them grotesquely unprepared for the experience, give birth to children...
...other two pregnancies were ended by spontaneous abortions. One occurred as late as the 20th week of pregnancy, apparently as a result of an accidental rupture of the membranes surrounding the infant. The baby boy was normal but not yet mature enough to live outside the womb. He died two hours later. The other abortion took place at eleven weeks because of a fatal chromosomal, or genetic, abnormality in the fetus...
...Brazil, delegates representing 50,000 church-organized grass-roots communities declared at their annual meeting last year: "Land in the hands of those who don't need it, workers earning a pittance, hunger, infant mortality and illiteracy. This great sin is a social sin, and it is called the capitalist system...
...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...
...need for medical help. Most discouraging, apnea is almost certainly not the sole cause of SIDS (one Boston specialist puts the incidence rate at anywhere from 5% to 90% of all SIDS cases), so the alarm can only be a stopgap measure. But it should at least cut the infant death toll...