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To: Jon Koplik who wrote (3377)	9/5/2001 12:58:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12231

Jon, I know two women [not related to me] who had babies die suddenly [from this syndrome]. Dr Jim Sprott claims he has solved the problem. I'm inclined to think there is some sense to his claims healthychild.com New Zealand is full of wool. Wool causes allergic reactions to some people [presumably including babies]. Sprott's claims are in regard to other toxins related to wool. However, I have always thought that SIDS is sometimes a convenient cover for infanticide, which has always been around. Not just deliberate infanticide but desperately tired mothers and fathers who shake their crying babies in frustration and anger, sometimes killing them [in easily identifiable brain damage from the shaking]. I have four adult children and I remember well the feeling of having crying babies who are inconsolable in the middle of the night. I can easily imagine a desperate mother or father putting a pillow over the baby's face, if only to stop the noise, without intention to kill but with some indifference [as happens when people get desperate, angry, frustrated and full of emotion]. Cot deaths two at a time?http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/GE0107/S00038.htm Babies crying [your own babies, not others for some reason] seem to have a resonant frequency which makes one's whole head full of the noise as though your brain is bouncing around in your head. I suppose that's a self-defence mechanism for the baby to get help. But if it leads to the baby being shaken [or smothered] it's obviously a defence strategy gone wrong [like so many things we do, from storing fat, to having sickle cell anaemia, there is a conflicting self-preservation problem]. I don't have a witty reply to this! Because so many Maori babies are brutalized, it is unreasonable to think that some of them wouldn't be smothered. This case was extreme police.govt.nz <"It would have been little wonder if she cried continuously; cried so much her aunty Rachaelle Namana finally shook her to death to silence her.”> [Namana is NOT a gentle person]. All parents are prone to frustration and anger, but Maoris are especially prone because of incomes, lifestyle, family instability, cultural norms, violence statistics. Hence, my guess is that the Maori statistics for SIDS show an unusually high rate, in part due to infanticide. Perhaps a world record [excluding girl babies in China and maybe India where male/female ratios show female infanticide, or abortion, have been very common. Mq. <Has the cause of crib death (SIDS) been found? Dr. Jim Sprott, OBE, a New Zealand scientist and chemist, states with certainty that crib death is caused by toxic nerve gases, which can be generated from a baby's mattress. Chemical compounds containing phosphorus, arsenic and antimony have been added to mattresses as fire retardants and for other purposes since the early 1950's. An otherwise harmless household fungus that commonly grows in bedding can interact with these chemicals to create poisonous gases. These dangerous gases can poison a baby to death, without waking the sleeping baby and without any struggle by the baby. A normal autopsy would not reveal any sign that the baby was poisoned. This logical explanation of crib death is backed by scientific research and six years of practical proof. In spite of denial and opposition from orthodox SIDS organizations, no research has convincingly disproved this gaseous poisoning explanation for crib death. Dr. Sprott says the solution is to prevent exposure of babies to the gases by wrapping mattresses in a cover made from high-grade polyethylene and ensuring that bedding used on top of a wrapped mattress does not contain any phosphorus, arsenic or antimony. He specifies a fleecy, pure cotton (flannelette) underblanket, with only cotton or poly-cotton sheets and woolen or cotton blankets over the baby. No other bedding should be used in the baby's crib. In particular, do not use any synthetic sheets or blankets, nor a duvet, sleeping bag, or sheepskin. >