text: Mum opens heart on terrible loss to cot death - Daily Record
  'Our Jack just switched off': Cot death tragedy still a mystery to shattered parents
  ON October 2, 2011 – Nicola and husband Scott's wedding anniversary – Jack was born at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley weighing 6lbs 2oz. Three weeks later he was dead.
  Updated 16:54, 22 OCT 2012
  Christina hugs wee brother Jack
  THE days surrounding the death of her baby son Jack remain blurred and hazy for Nicola Miller.
  She can remember shock and weeping – a lot of weeping – but as she speaks it is evident that every memory has been picked up, turned over and examined time and again as if somehow she could change it.
  On October 2, 2011 – Nicola and husband Scott's wedding anniversary – Jack was born at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Paisley weighing 6lbs 2oz.
  Just three weeks later he was dead.
  Nicola, of Dumbarton, said: "You should never have to bury your own child.
  "They told me it was just like a wee light switch that goes off. There's no reason, it just switches off."
  Jack died of SIDS – sudden infant death syndrome – which affects around 300 babies in the UK every year.
  No one fully understands what causes SIDS but research has shown that it is more common in boys and usually happens at night in the first three months of life.
  Experts suggest that it occurs at a particular point in the child's development and may be caused by the baby's attempt to cope with some sort of stress.
  According to research, the most vulnerable are babies born prematurely or with a low birth weight.
  But no one knows why Jack Arthur Miller was chosen.
  Nicola, Scott and Christina
  Nicola, 28 – who already had a six-year-old daughter Christina – had had a difficult pregnancy and eventually had to be induced as he seemed to be losing weight.
  Nevertheless when Jack arrived, he was healthy and Nicola took him home the next day.
  She said: "He was a perfect baby. He didn't cry very much, only woke up when he wanted fed and Christina loved him too.
  "She was like a mini mummy, fetching his bottles, always wanting to hold him and helping with his bath.
  "It was a wonderful time and we were so happy. You don't think that you are going to go to bed and everything's fine and then you wake up in the morning and it's not fine at all. It is horrendous – really bad."
  Three weeks after Jack was born, Nicola and Scott were enjoying a quiet night in.
  Christina was staying with her gran which gave the young couple the chance to be alone with their new son.
  At around 2.30am, Scott, 29, got up to give Jack his night feed. He took his bottle as normal and Scott let him kick about a bit.
  Nicola said: "Just after 8am Scott woke up and realised that Jack was late in waking up for his next feed.
  "He looked at him and realised something was wrong. He shouted to me, 'Nicola, he's not breathing.'"
  The next few minutes were chaos. Nicola frantically dialled 999 and as medics gave them directions down the phone, she and Scott tried desperately to revive their son.
  She said: "The paramedics were here in two or three minutes and they took over. Scott had to take me away, I was so upset.
  "At 8.30am they pronounced Jack dead. We just crumbled."
  Over the next week Nicola and Scott went round in a bubble of disbelief.
  Nicola said: "We had to formally identify Jack, which was awful.
  "I assumed he would be like the way he was but he looked so different – like he wasn't ours.
  "I remember looking in the Moses basket and thinking it didn't look like him.
  "It was too much. I got such a fright I just fell to the floor.
  "The following day he had had his post mortem and that's when we were told he had sudden infant death syndrome.
  "It was a terrible time. We were in total shock and I couldn't speak to anyone.
  "It was like being in a nightmare. I kept expecting to wake up."
  In the months since Jack's death the family have ploughed their efforts into helping others facing the same heartache by raising funds for the Scottish Cot Death Trust.
  Nicola makes jewellery to sell and every few months they send a cheque off to the SCDT.
  Christina, unaware of the nature of the organisation, knows it as "Jack's charity".
  Nicola said: "We wanted to do as much as we could to help them because the Trust have been so fantastic to us and Christina.