0 a small bed for a baby or young child with high bars around the sides so that the child cannot fall out --
1 a narrow bed made of strong material attached to a frame, esp. one that can be folded and easily carried --
Some children die of cot deaths in the first 12 months of life, and nobody has the faintest idea what causes it.
There is also the worrying increase in what are called "cot deaths" those often unexplained deaths of babies during the first months of life.
I regret that the information requested on cot deaths for 1986 is not yet available.
Beds should be arranged in the best-lighted portions of the room, and on no account should children's cots be placed in out-of-the-way corners in deep shadow.
Really he was, he used to be standing over the cot sometimes, and he'd think nobody was listening to him, and you'd get all this baby talk.
In this respect, he stated that "cot-caught word pairs may have contrasting low vowels, may have a single vowel, or may vary by word or word subset" (1985:lx).
Pediatricians in district hospitals can have difficulty in arranging the urgent transfer of a sick baby if the nearest cardiac center has no suitable cot available.
This distinction seems to us essential in order to estimate better prior to birth the possible increased risk to the unborn sibling of a case of cot death.
