SIDS book that will blow your mind....

[JellyBean]

Wow. When I woke up this morning I truly thought that this thread had been done and dusted. How wrong was I? lol....

Firstly I just wanted to say thankyou Innana for your support. I didn't realise how much that meant to me until I read your post. I didn't intend to make others feel challenged or under attack - I just wanted to 'put it out there'. I want the book to speak for itself - I don't want to speak for it. People can make up their own minds after reading it.

The book also covers the factors you raised Innana about our all the household environmental chemicals which contribute to toxicity in our children - particularly in our western world. But more importantly, it gives parents practical advice on how to minimise these risks. As you can see from my post I too am very chemical conscious and have become a rep for Miessence so that I can do that more cheaply!

I scan the peer reviewed medical journals because that is what our western culture demands as the 'empirical standard' of all intellegence, and it was stuck down my throat an uni, but really it is the colloquial evidence, stories from mothers and 'average joes' and like you say Innana - the intuitive gut emotions that really 'speak' to me.

I do firmly believe that toxicity is the major cause of sudden (or not so sudden IMO) infant death, but that it is the combination and accumulation of factors involving the host and the environment. Host being the inherent genetic constitution of the infant, their immune status, their degree of development at birth - prem etc, the mothers diet during pregnancy & breastfeeding, which all affect how the host responds to environmental factors such as chemicals in the home, chemicals in personal care products, chemicals in the water mixed with infant formula, chemicals in food, chemicals in infant bedding materials, chemicals in medications and chemicals like formaldehyde in vaccines (just to list a few... ).

Toxicity is almost certain to be prevalent in the autopsy of any person young or old, as we all absorb toxins every day, however this is not enough according to science to attribute which or how much of what source of toxicity specifically caused the death. The toxicity will simply be found in the cells and tissues of the body, which may lead to systematic overload, but this is very different to toxicity caused by drinking a gallon of formaldehyde, for example. In this instance the cause of death would be indisputable.

In the case of systematic toxicity, direct conclusions cannot be drawn. Which is probably why, according to scientific standards, they may not ever be able to determine or attribute a single cause or cure, because there are so many factors, and they all interact. Finding formaldehyde and mercury in the body of a baby who died the night of a vaccination doesn't tell us much other than the baby was vaccinated, as we know these ingredients are in vaccines. It is not enough for science to say well, obviously the vaccine caused the death - because other children who received the same vaccine that day will not have died. So instead we have to take a holistic approach, by eliminating as many potential avenues for harm, and lobby to make them safer. Lets remove formaldehyde, thimerosal and aluminium hydroxide from vaccines. Lets treat children as individuals, not numbers - lets not assume that a baby born at 35 weeks can cope with the same vaccine dosage and schedule as an infant born at full term. Let us see if there is a change to the incidence of sids. In the very least, we will have made one potential cause safer and less toxic, whilst still being able to offer the benefit of an antibody response.

One thing is certain in my mind (and I speak for many of you out there!)- if we take measures to decrease our own and our childs exposure to toxicity (which I agree is more prevalent in western nations), we will see a drastic decrease in the number of sudden infant death cases. But if various authorities continue to deny, ignore or dispute these harm reduction strategy recommendations from parents and specialists from all fields of life - we will never know the difference that could be made.