During these numerous hospitalizations, my wife was always allowed to sleep in my room on an uncomfortable, ricketycot.
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We have been using the notation 0o0 for the class ofcot, socks, college, etc., which is largely composed of short-o words.
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Is there water on the bottom of thecot?
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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 ofcotdeath.
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Pediatricians in district hospitals can have difficulty in arranging the urgent transfer of a sick baby if the nearest cardiac center has no suitablecotavailable.
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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).
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Really he was, he used to be standing over thecotsometimes, and he'd think nobody was listening to him, and you'd get all this baby talk.
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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.
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I regret that the information requested oncotdeaths for 1986 is not yet available.
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There is also the worrying increase in what are called "cotdeaths" those often unexplained deaths of babies during the first months of life.
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Some children die ofcotdeaths in the first 12 months of life, and nobody has the faintest idea what causes it.
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