Valley mother aiming to raise awareness on Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Amila was a agleam and bubbly small miss with a large grin and circular cheeks.

On May 8, 2018, Linda Barreto unexpectedly mislaid her young daughter.

Her husband, Ramon, had conscionable travel location erstwhile helium noticed thing was wrong.

"He brings her implicit to the surviving room, and she's inactive warm," Linda said. "I commencement giving her CPR, and Ramon calls 911. We're pleading with 911 to delight nonstop idiosyncratic arsenic accelerated arsenic they can."

First responders rushed Amila to the hospital, but weren't capable to resuscitate her.

Amila had lone been live for 164 days earlier unexpectedly passing distant to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

The nonaccomplishment was heartbreaking.

"That is the explanation of feeling similar the rug is pulled retired from nether your feet," Linda said. "It truly did consciousness similar the satellite stopped."

SIDS is the abrupt decease of a babe nether 1 twelvemonth old, and determination is nary known cause, adjacent aft a afloat probe by healthcare providers and the coroner's office.

According to the CDC, successful 2022, conscionable implicit 1,500 toddlers died from SIDs.

"In California, Fresno County has 1 of the higher numbers," says Linda Hicks, SIDS Coordinator for the Fresno County Health Department.

It's inactive unclear what causes SIDs.

Hicks explains that determination are ways families tin trim the risk.

"We privation babies to beryllium sleeping alone, which means you're not furniture sharing," she said.

Hicks adds babies should besides slumber connected their backmost and support them successful a harmless slumber area, similar a crib.

While Amila volition stay everlastingly young, her bequest lives on.

Linda took that symptom and turned it into enactment and created the Amlia Rey Foundation.

Their ngo is to stock joy.

"We person done antithetic types of drives," she said. "When it was Fresno Unified, we had done books and blankets."

Six years aft each the grief and losing Amila, the household welcomed babe Alex successful December 2024.

She sees Amila's tone successful Alex.

Linda wants families to cognize determination is assistance and resources disposable for families who've mislaid a babe to SIDS, and they are not unsocial successful their grief.

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