Is infant mortality going up?

[Anonymous]

I've run into too many girls who have had babies that died 2-3 months after birth. obviously that happened in the past before modern medicine quite often. but it seems like it's happening more often again than it did.

Yes

No

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11 mo

well the infant mortality rate went down when grain consumption went down 3-4 fold. if a shitty diet was the cause to begin with then that would explain why its the rate would get higher again. the government successfully fear mongered the last bits of healthy foods out of the diet the last 10 years.

[Nikki1989]

Infant mortality rate for 2024 was 2.68, a 13.68% decline from 2023.

https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/aus/australia/infant-mortality-rate

[Asker]

you have to analyze trends over multiple years.

[Apple1996]

SIDs is still a thing regardless of it being modern times babies still randomly die

[Apple1996]

Also Sids peaks in the 2-4 month range

[Apple1996]

my.clevelandclinic.org/.../13646-sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids

[Asker]

I've heard it's from mother's starving their infants throughout the night to "train them". then the infant stops crying when they're hungry and they end up starved of nutrition. self deletion genes are real. it's similar to a natural abortion but outside of the womb.

[Apple1996]

Crazy not sure I've ever heard that but some moms are terrible so maybe. Probably some type of postpartum psychosis if its tied to that

[Asker]

there's a lot about genetics that isn't understood but self deletion genes have been known about in fungi, for example, there's no reason they couldn't exist in humans. proof it's related to nutrition is that
infants that are breastfed for the first 2 months have a 50% less chance of dying from SIDS