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From: Stephanie Messanger [mailto:growingawareness@hotmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, 5 December 2009 8:19 a.m.
Subject: Get Rid of SIDS Project
Hello All,
I am writing to all of you in the hope you may know someone who can help.
As some of you know I have a proposal, the 'Get Rid of SIDS Project' , which I, and some very credible scientists
believe could wipe out SIDS or at the very least get the rate down to a handful per year.
Many people don't know what our current SIDS rate is and in fact, because it doesn't make the news, except to scare people into giving donations, believe very few die. The fact is that one baby died, in the past year, every 9 days due to unexplained causes in Queensland alone. The other fact is that 15 died sleeping on their back, 17 died sleeping on their stomach, 3 on their side and the remaining 4 were either unknown or in other positions(one in a sling on a parent's chest). The Sids and KIds people are convincing people to sleep their babies on their backs to prevent SIDS and as you can see by the official Govt figures, this is not the answer. The research dollars people have given them is now being used on stillborn research, instead of SIDS research. They have broadened their scope as it seems they have depleted their ideas for solving the SIDS puzzle.
The SIDS and KIDS Organisation are not interested in the research I have uncovered, The Toxic Gas Theory, and have a page on their website which clearly states this. The forensic scientist who has done the bulk of the work on the Toxic Gas Theory, has on his website all the information to refute what the SIDS people are saying and in fact he shows how all of what they say actually supports the Toxic Gas Theory. If you want to learn more go to www.cotlife2000.co.nz and www.sidsandkids.org.au .
Frankly, I do not know for certain that the Toxic Gas Theory is the answer, but neither do the SIDS and KIDS people if what is on their website is all they have to support their argument. I have spoken to one member of their organisation and she gave incorrect info about the theory (she thought I was 'just' a member of the public making an enquiry for my daughter) and just pointed me to the page on their website.
My proposal is to supply a cot mattress cover to every baby born in an 18 month period in one state of Australia and then compare the SIDS figures to the previous years figures. Not rocket science by any means. To accompany the covers there would be educational tools for the hospitals and parents. I am prepared to devote 2 years to doing this but need to funding and cooperation of the hospital system.
When Peter Beattie was Premier of Qld I met with him at least 7 brief times at community cabinet meetings. He was initially very interested, as was the health minister, but all they did with it was pass it to the SIDS Org and of course they just dismissed it. That was back in 2001, 2002 and 2003. I have decided not to give up as I have heard of a friend whose sister's baby died in the stroller while the Mum was out shopping. Also, in N.Z. twin babies, 4 months old, died within an hour of each other, sleeping in the same cot - this is further indication that the cause is not medical, but rather environmental. At the time, the N.Z. Health minister admitted this in the press.
What I do know is this has to stop, and I need help to do it. I want to do this study to prove one way or another if the toxic gas theory has merit. I want to do the work myself as I know I am totally independent with no vested interests in the outcome. I would like to do the study at and through a university so it has credibility when completed, no matter what the outcome.
If any of you know someone in the scientific field who has ties or knows people at a university in Qld or any other state for that matter, please take steps to get me to meet with them personally.
I thank you for whatever part you can play in getting this study happening.
Sincerely,
Stephanie
07 3821-5454
email: getridofsids@live.com
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