What is the impact of a cot death?
The grief after losing a baby to cot death may show in a range of different ways in different people. Some parents feel intense guilt, wondering if they could have done something either to cause the death, or to have prevented it. Others may become angry at the unfairness of the loss of a baby. Some people have physical symptoms due to their grief, while others may become depressed. The worst possible nightmare for the parents is being wrongly accused for the baby death, furthermore they will have to deal with a postmortem examination of their baby and a police interview, both of which are required by law, and may be lead to put the bereaved parents in jail for years.
