How long are babies at risk of SIDS?

Question

How long are babies at risk of SIDS?

Answer 1

The peak age for SIDS is between two and four months of age, although it can occur anytime during the first year of life.

http://www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cccf/00000127...

Answer 2

They are at risk for true "SIDS" for the first 2 years of life... but there is a risk of what I believe thy are calling SCDS... that is the same thing but in the over 2yrs old sect.  That risk goes down after around 4 or 5 years old so I hear... but that is much rarer than SIDS!  I saw a whole story on it on TV a while back after a 2 or 3 year old had passed from it and the parents wanted to try to educate others about it.

Answer 3

Usually up to 1 year, although there are cases where it happened later but most cases occur to infants up to 1 year old

Answer 4

The risk is there until the baby reaches 6 to 8 months of age, and then it begins to decrease but sadly there have been very, VERY rare cases of SIDS reported in children as old as 5 years.

When we sleep, ALL of us, as our brain rests it at least once a night 'forgets' to tell the body to breathe, but this 'mistake' is corrected within seconds, in babies/children that we lose to SIDS it is still unknown as to why the brain doesn't correct the mistake.

Answer 5

Definitely a year.

Answer 6

Up to one year of age

Answer 7

its actually up to 2YEARS!!!

hard  to belive, but i swear its true!

i had a cousin die at 19months from sids!

Answer 8

Up to a year old.  Most cases occur between 2 and 5 months.  It is believed, currently, that SIDS is primarily caused by a sleep problem. Baby goes into such a deep REM sleep that their autonomic breathing system fails.  Clearly SIDS is multicausal, but this seems to be the current prevailing theory for the majority of SIDS babies.