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Originally Posted by Table 5
What are those pads for anyway? Why is that much of a problem if the baby moves? What exactly are you monitoring for?
Sorry if these questions sound stupid.
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Sudden Infant Death syndrome...basically, because they are so primitive developmentally, babies can go into so deep a sleep that their autonomic nervous system can go to sleep as well, and they stop breathing.
Edit: Well I guess there's lots of other theories as to what causes it, but basically it will detect a child not breathing which would be the symptom of SIDS, even if the cause isn't really known/well understood.