Fathers Who Smoke Pot Increase Child's Risk of SIDS

	posted by Nightmist on Monday July 23, @11:40PM from the men's-health dept.
	This report on Excite News opens up some interesting questions about the biological link between fathers and their offspring. According to the article, fathers who smoke pot create a greater risk of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) for their offspring than mothers. Not much more is known about this phenomenon right now, but it does further the scientific fact that a child is half his father and half his mother (with respect to genetic make-up)... not all his mother and only fertilized by father.

	By the way, folks, I'd also like to provide this link to an excellent scientific description of how a fetus develops into a male or female. One of the biggest fallacies among the general public these days is that a human fetus "starts out female" and that maleness is then forced upon that fetus by the Y chromosome and excretions of the developing testes. That's only partially true. As you'll see from reading above, a fetus actually starts out sexually indifferent. It has the ducts to create either a female OR a male. Now, we HAVE proven that if deprived of the testis secretions, the fetus will naturally develop into a female, but that's a far cry from stating (as is the popular notion) that "we're all female in the beginning." I love science. :)

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SIDS (Score:1) by Anniee on Tuesday July 24, @06:50PM EST (#1) (User #218 Info) I think it's worth mentioning here that the SIDS scare first began to be an issue because of a mother who had smothered each of her five babies over the course of several years. These cases were used in beginning the research until it surfaced many years later that she had killed them. Another significant aspect is something we almost take for granted - immunizations of infants. In Japan they ran an experiment whereby they delayed the DPT immunization (typically done at about two months) until two years of age. SIDS disappeared almost overnight! But guess what did happen? There was a glut of new health problems among two year olds. We are giving newborns adult dosages of vaccines which become part of their genetic material, and the reporting of adverse side effects is wholly insufficient. For example when my son had an extreme reaction to his DPT shot they told me it was nothing. When the reaction continued for a solid week, and I called back, they said it was past the time for it to be linked to the vaccination. The problem here is obvious. If a child dies of SIDS a week later, it doesn't count. Even though the Japan results speak for themselves. In any case the vaccinations throughout the first two years denied my son a lot of sleep (and sleep is when the synapses connect in infants which led to him being somewhat developmentally delayed) and suddenly he developed food sensitivities when he had been fine prior. He had to be on goat's milk for two years. (Yuck) Didn't mean to get too off-topic here - anyway SIDS is rather suspect, IMO. Breast-fed babies who sleep with their mothers have the lowest risk of SIDS. Just thought I'd throw that in :)

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