Welcome to Jacob's Corner of SIDS Families

If you are visiting SIDS Families, odds are that your life has already been touched by SIDS. Mine was. My name is Lydia and I created this website in memory of my son who died in April of 1999. I couldn't find any sites after Jacob died that gave me any comfort, most just made me feel like a statistic, and we are anything but that. To honour my son's life, and to help bring families together, I started working on SIDS Families in October of 1999 and formally launched the first version of the site at the beginning of November that year. Little did I know then that SIDS Families would grow to the size it has. I still run the site on my own, although it's no longer something I do "in my spare time", it now takes up more time than a full-time job would (in fact some weeks I have logged enough hours to be working two full-time jobs at once), I continue to do it in memory of my son. I am one person, I have no staff, and I receive no salary for what I do. Although SIDS Families is a registered non-profit organization, it is not some huge corporation like some seem to think. The "Board of Directors" consists of myself and my husband Edward. My "office" is a room in our home. Our "meetings" often take place talking as my husband and I are on long drives or after the kids go to bed because it's the only chance we have with relatively few interruptions. I am a mom of seven children, six with me here on earth and as my husband says, "one already waiting on us in Heaven". I do what I am able to do, and my husband supports me and the work I do the best he can, but I'm not here all the time and I don't work regular 9-5 hours. Sometimes you'll find me online at 4 in the morning, other times I'm off the computer by 3 in the afternoon. It depends on my workload and whatever is going on with my family from day to day. It actually makes me really sad when people fail to understand what I have stated so clearly on the site over the years - it's just me. One person. I don't have the funding large organizations have, nor do I have the resources, manpower or the staff. I do have the experience though, the "SIDS experience" if you could call it that. This is my story.