[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] Baby illness term

[gpvjem]

You are correct Rose-Marie,  Kraempfen = Cramps.   
It was a term often used relative to the deaths of  infants in many records as cause of death.  Sometimes the term might have been used in conjunction with convulsions.

John Marsch

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  My grandmother had three children who died in infancy in Volhynia. I just
  heard from one of my aunts, that my grandmother had told her that they had
  died of "Kraempfe" - and please excuse the spelling, if it is incorrect. I'm
  not too fluent in German - and the thought that comes to mind is "cramps?"
  Can anyone enlighten me as to what this might mean? Was it a non-technical
  term for a medical condition? Or . . . ?

  Rose-Marie