Not exact matches
10 There is no
animal model of SIDS and it has never been observed to occur naturally in any species
other than humans.2
While the standardization of a SIDS diagnosis has been and continues to be elusive and / or inconsistent, it is most often applied to situations in which an otherwise healthy infant between the ages of 8 - 16 weeks, especially, but up to 12 months, dies suddenly and unexpectedly presumably during its sleep and upon postmortem examination no apparent internal causal factor (s) explaining the death can be identified.11, 12
Dogs have more sensitive ears
than humans do and
while some dogs don't appear to mind the noise,
others will bark, whine, howl, hide, cower or run into furniture and walls, said Dr. Melissa Bain of the University of California, Davis, School of Veterinary Medicine's Clinical
Animal Behavior Service.
These results are similar to those found in
other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women
than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both
animal and
human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29
While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.