SIDS book that will blow your mind....

[Visitor6]

Firstly for the comments about the absence of a newborns immunity.

http://www.immune.org.nz/site_resour...munisation.pdf

Originally Posted by Oorki Galoorki
it is very hard to have a child's death to be classed as SIDs. infact there is now a law that if the death can not be decided upon(ie SIDs, suffocation), the parents can get charged.

I hope you can tell me too because nobody in the ambulance service I work for has told me.

We have men (and women!) walking on the moon since the 1970's, and we have sattelites orbiting the planet right now, and yet they expect us to seriously believe that they can't find a cause for why babies keep dying in their beds? Nonsense.

Sudden cardiac death happens in adults too: without discoverable cause just as in SIDS- if not more often. Whipping up some mechanics and computers to create a big firecracker is a whole lot different to the intricacies of the human body.

Human bodies are not machines. Birth does not guarantee life. Nor does it predict it's progression. When it ends suddenly we want answers we want something to hang our hats on; something or someone to blame. 'Just because' can be never enough.

I can't however hang my hat on ounfounded evidence.

[Just Me]

Firstly, I think it is important to note that the funding from Red Nose Day does not just go into researching the causes of SIDS, but goes into supporting the SIDS and Kids organisation which play a HUGE role is supporting families who lose their children in these devastating circumstances. I think it is very sad that this book is trying to stop that funding which provides so much help and support for families who are going through what would easily be the worst time of their entire lives.

I also think the statistics about sleeping baby on their back very much speak for themselves. In 1980 when the SIDS advice was to sleep babies on their tummies (because doctor's believed babies could drown on their own vomit) out of the 250'000 births that year (approx) there were 450 SIDS deaths. Fast forward to 2005 where sleeping a baby on their back (because doctors have discovered that it is pretty hard for babies to drown in their own vomit for psyiological reasons) and other safe sleeping practices have become more dominant, there were approx 250'000 births and only 80 SIDS deaths. Unfortunately, that number was up by 30 deaths from the year before. SIDS and kids have put it down to complacency of parents who have again began to sleep babies on their tummies to avoid flat head syndrome.

I think the statistics very much speak for themselves as far as the reduction of death because of safe sleeping.

As far as co-sleeping goes, there is a lot of research coming out now that says that it is okay to do it as long as the parents are not affected by drugs and alcohol or highly sleep deprived and neither of the parents smoke. I think this is the official info from SIDS and Kids too at the present moment.

I can't remember the study but I did hear on the news recently that a study found that 80% of all SIDS deaths, the babies had been exposed to smoke. Another recent study also showed that third hand smoke (like that in couches or upholstery of cars or clothing) is just as bad for you as second hand smoke (passive smoking) which may have also had a huge impact on the safety of babies while they are sleeping.

I can understand why this is such a sensitive issue for all parents. We all want our babies to wake up in the morning and something this random rocks us to the core of our security. We as humans try to explain it and give reason to it so that we can prevent it happening and lead ourselves back to that place of feeling safe and secure. I think the info provided in this book would be wonderful if it were conclusive, but I think it is just giving many parents that sense of security that they need so they don't have to be scared about putting their baby to bed. I completely understand how each parent feels, I am a parent and never want to experience this pain.

I think many parents feel the same as me and it is hard not to especially when we know someone who has lost a baby to SIDS. I think I do what I believe is best for my baby, I follow the advice given, look at the research and try to make sure that my baby is as safe as possible. I don't think anyone should co-sleep or not co-sleep because of what others say, you have to do what you are most comfortable with. Look at the research pertaining to your parenting choices and make the decisions you are most comfortable with based on the information available.

Here is the statistical results of SIDS deaths from 1981 to 2000: http://www.sidsandkids.org/documents...er2003_002.pdf