The nursery is one of the top spots where an SUID can occur. SUID stands for sudden unexpected infant deaths. An SUID is when a death happens to a baby who is less than 1 year old and there is no cause of death that can be discovered immediately.
There are three main categories of SUID:
SIDS.
Accidental suffocation or strangulation in bed, which is broadly known as fatal sleep incident.
Unknown causes.
In 2015, approximately 1,600 children died because of SIDS. Another 1,200 babies died from unknown causes, and approximately 900 more died because of accidental suffocation or strangulation while they were in bed.
In recent years, SIDS has continued on a downward trend from a high of 130.3 deaths per 100,000 live births in 1990. The rates have continued to drop in the years since then and were at 39.4 deaths per 100,000 in 2015.
But unlike SIDS, the number of deaths per 100,000 live births have begun to increase in recent years for both unknown causes and accidental suffocations. Because of the increases in both these categories, the overall SUID rate increased from 87.5 deaths per 100,000 births in 2014 to a higher number in 2015 of 92.6 deaths per 100,000 births.