Sudden infant death syndrome: will parents finally get answers?
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The Guardian
4.6 • 5.9K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:10.0 | Today, has new research brought us closer to understanding the cause of sudden infant death syndrome. |
| 0:22.5 | Just before we start, this episode does include the account of losing a baby. |
| 0:26.6 | If that's going to be difficult for you right now, maybe come back to this one. |
| 0:30.6 | Otherwise, please take care when listening. |
| 0:34.6 | Louise, did you always know that you wanted to have children? |
| 0:40.6 | Not at all. When we got married, it's not even something that we had discussed. |
| 0:44.6 | We were just young and happy-go-looking and I felt pregnant. It was accident. |
| 0:50.6 | It was 20 years ago when Louise Barrett and her husband Jim found out they were having Ellis, their first baby. |
| 0:58.6 | The birth was really straightforward. My waters went at midnight. We went to the hospital probably about 4am. |
| 1:06.6 | I'd elected for a water birth, so it was all very gentle and nice. |
| 1:12.6 | Can you remember the moment you first met Ellis? |
| 1:16.6 | It was quite strange because he was born and the cord was around his neck. |
| 1:22.6 | They cut the cord and then they took him straight away. |
| 1:26.6 | I didn't get to see him or hold him for at least the first five or ten minutes. |
| 1:30.6 | Then they brought him back. It was just amazing. |
| 1:34.6 | He was this pink little thing and he was looking at me. |
| 1:38.6 | That amazing love that you get for a child, the minute they're born, it was an absolutely incredible feeling to think, wow! |
| 1:44.6 | They've just made this baby. It's really a great feeling. |
| 1:50.6 | What was Ellis' like? |
| 1:52.6 | He was actually two weeks early, so he was quite small. He was only £6.2 when he was born. |
| 1:56.6 | He was very small compared to the other babies that were on the ward. |
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