Information for babycare Professionals and Students

Are you...

• A midwife?
• A childbirth educator?
• A babycare nurse?
• A daycare manager?
• A doctor?
• A paediatrician?
• A student? 
• A babycare media representative?

Cot Life 2000 issues the following publications free of charge:

• Leaflet:  The Cause of Cot Death and How to Prevent it 

This eight-page leaflet is issued for distribution to parents and prospective parents. It contains a summary of the toxic gas theory for cot death, results of analyses of infant bedding, and full information on how to wrap a baby's mattress for cot death prevention.

For babycare professionals in New Zealand: Copies of leaflet available for all parents in your caseload.

For babycare professionals in other countries: Leaflet available with no restriction on photocopying.  0

• Article texts:  The Cause of Cot Death and How to Prevent it

Article texts are available for publication in the general print media and on websites.  These articles explain the toxic gas theory for cot death, provide statistics regarding the New Zealand mattress-wrapping campaign, and contain a critique of items of orthodox cot death prevention advice.  They are well received by parents and other lay readers.  No copyright charge applies.

• Power Point presentation:  The Cause of Cot Death and How to Prevent it  click here

This presentation provides information on the cause of cot death, instructions on how to wrap a baby's mattress for cot death prevention, and statistical results of the New Zealand mattress-wrapping campaign.  Recommended for use by babycare lecturers, babycare advisers and students.

 

Crib Death : not SIDS

 

The current definition of SIDS is, "the sudden death of an infant under one year of age which remains unexplained after a thorough case investigation, including performance of a complete autopsy, examination of the death scene, and review of the clinical history." The real term we are referring to when we think of SIDS is actually crib death, or cot death in other countries. For clarification on SIDS and crib death, please understand this information from Dr. Sprott

The term SIDS was first used by a Dr Beckwith in 1969. Recently he wrote:

‘‘If a prize were offered for the poorest definition of a disease or disorder in the scientific literature, this one would be a strong contender".

In enlightened societies cot death IS NOT now known as SIDS. The US is about 10 years behind the times as regards crib death, because of the closed-mind attitude of leading so-called "experts" in this field. They aren't "experts" at all....ignoramus would describe them!
 

 

Crib Death is not SIDS Crib death is not a syndrome - the term Sudden Infant Death, commonly referred to as SIDS, is a scientific and linguistic misnomer
 

“Syndrome: the concurrence of symptoms in a disease; set of concurrent symptoms characterizing it” (Oxford Dictionary)
 

But there are no symptoms of crib death - the only commonality is death itself

The coining of this term was most unfortunate, because it conveyed the incorrect impression that crib death had a medical cause, and this misunderstanding has led to the deaths of tens of thousands of babies

The term Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and the acronym SIDS should be abandoned