Baby Health - Understanding SIDS

Perhaps the most frightening time for a new parent is the first few months as you discover about general baby health and understanding SIDS. Mainstream health professionals do tend to paint a bleak picture if you don't follow their advice. But how good is their advice?

SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome, is a comparatively new problem and it's worth doing some investigation yourself to discover the possible causes. It only started to become common after mass vaccination was fully established.

In Japan, when the minimum age to vaccinate a child was raised from two months to two years, SIDS disappeared. So let's examine this.

Babies are born without an immune system. They get passive immunity from their mother's milk. When babies are weaned, their immune system starts to develop. But this only happens when they are exposed to pathogens - virus', bacteria and the like.

This means that they are likely to succumb to the pathogen, to a lesser or greater extent. This is how their immune system learns. So, on the surface, it looks as if your baby is unhealthy. But, in fact, they are creating a potentially healthy immune system that will stand them in good stead all their life. An analogy would be learning to ride a bicycle - you fall off a few times before you get the hang of it.

The idea behind vaccination is to stimulate the immune system. If there is no immune system as yet, at two months, then the vaccine can't act.

Statistically many, perhaps most, cases of SIDS occur soon after a vaccine, as Japan discovered. Vaccines don't come without their side effects. The ingredients would be considered highly toxic in any other, less emotionally charged, area of health - aluminium, mercury, other species tissue, adjuvants to mention just a few.

The medical profession consider this 'wastage' acceptable because they feel that the benefits far outweigh the downside. As a parent, you may beg to differ.

So what can you do to support the healthy development of your baby's immune system without risk?

1. As a pregnant and breast feeding mother, make sure your diet is healthy, natural, balanced, without processed food and limit animal protein. This will increase your level of immunity, which is then passed to your baby.


2. Only consume plant based supplements, rather than the common isolated and synthetic ones that currently flood the marketplace.


3. Make quality time for your baby, showing patience and devotion. Let other aspects of your life that prevent this go, at least for the time being.


4. Mentally stimulate your baby with trips in nature - the park, the beach, woodlands, etc.


5. Limit exposure to synthetic stimulation, such as TV.


6. Use homeopathy as the main treatment for your baby. Homeopathy is natural, risk free, without side effects and above all, gentle. Homeopathic treatment is energetic, elegant, effective and economical.

Madeleine Innocent is a full time consultant homeopath based in Perth, Western Australia. She also coaches people, both on- and off-line, on how to use some of the common home prescribing remedies. For more information, visit: Homeopathy

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