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Speaker 1: Well, we know that today is red Nose Day and

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Speaker 1: to NTEE Health is encouraging territory parents to learn safe

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Speaker 1: sleeping techniques for their babies and toddlers to reduce the

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Speaker 1: risk of sudden unexpected deaths in children. No, now we

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Speaker 1: are going to be I believe that we have got

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Speaker 1: on the line right now to talk further about this situation.

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Speaker 1: Alison Jarvis, the acting Clinical Midwife Manager of Maternity, who

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Speaker 1: are well, so hang on a moment. Good morning to you, Allison.

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Speaker 2: Hello, how you doing it?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, very well, Thank you so very much for your

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Speaker 1: time this morning. Allison. Now, we do know that today

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Speaker 1: is of course read Nose Day and as I said,

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Speaker 1: NTEE Health encouraging territory parents to learn safe sleeping techniques

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Speaker 1: for their babies and toddlers in an effort really to

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Speaker 1: reduce the risk of sudden unexpected deaths in children. And

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Speaker 1: we know that well in twenty nineteen there were thirty

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Speaker 1: four cases of sudden unexpected infant it's in the Northern Territory,

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Speaker 1: as well as thirty nine steel births and eighteen neonatal

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Speaker 1: newborn deaths. It is, you know, it's incredibly, incredibly tragic

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Speaker 1: when you look at some of those those statistics, isn't.

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Speaker 2: It absolutely Any baby that has lost is one too many.

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Speaker 2: So anything that we can do to help spread the

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Speaker 2: word and help parents have the confidence to sleep their

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Speaker 2: babies in the safest manner possible to prevent any more

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Speaker 2: deaths or as many as we can.

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Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I one hundred percent agree. You know, I

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Speaker 1: know that when my babies were little. It's something that

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Speaker 1: you really are quite concerned about in those early weeks

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Speaker 1: and early months. What are some of the things that

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Speaker 1: we can do when you know, when putting our babies

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Speaker 1: to sleep to try to keep them as safe as possible.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely, So it's the same recommendations that it has

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Speaker 2: been for quite a lot of years now, which is great.

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Speaker 2: So we know that it's the safest way to sleep.

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Speaker 2: They visas on their back and not on their tummy

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Speaker 2: or their side, So sleeping them on their back just

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Speaker 2: make sure that they're less likely to choke on any

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Speaker 2: warmits or anything that that they might have. Babies regulate

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Speaker 2: their heat a lot through their face in their heads,

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Speaker 2: so keeping that uncovered really helps for them to be

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Speaker 2: able to keep their temperature in the right zone, which

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Speaker 2: is closely connected with keeping babies safe and preventing them

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Speaker 2: having a sid's death. And the other really big thing

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Speaker 2: that we know that is protective for babies is keeping

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Speaker 2: them smoke free, so making sure that no one's smoking

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Speaker 2: cigarettes or any other drugs around your baby, and making

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Speaker 2: sure that no one's sleeping wear baby seat, we're babies sleeping.

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Speaker 2: Besides that, it's just not having too many fluffy things

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Speaker 2: and having like a nice safe space for babies to sleep,

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Speaker 2: so firm mattress, it's nice and clean, and then nothing

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Speaker 2: that the baby can get trapped under us like pillows

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Speaker 2: or big fluffy toys or bumpers or anything like that,

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Speaker 2: just to make sure that they've got their own little

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Speaker 2: special safe zone.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I know we all absolutely, you know, try

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Speaker 1: to do everything that we can to keep our children safe,

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Speaker 1: particularly when they are little babies. Is there you know,

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Speaker 1: is there somewhere that parents can go to for some

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Speaker 1: advice or you know, to learn a little bit more,

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Speaker 1: you know, even if there's an expectant parent listening right

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Speaker 1: now who's wondering exactly how to do things correctly or

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Speaker 1: the right way in an effort to really try to

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Speaker 1: reduce any risk.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we've got an excellent resource. So on the Internet

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Speaker 2: is a mine of information which is put out by

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Speaker 2: the Kids and Kids Association, So the guys that we're

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Speaker 2: supporting today for Red Nose Day, they have heaps of

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Speaker 2: information brochures for parents as well as lots of questions

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Speaker 2: How do I know that they're not going to be

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Speaker 2: too hot or cold? They've got lots of really helpful

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Speaker 2: articles and then some simple broches as well, and there

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Speaker 2: are lots of different languages too, so you can find

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Speaker 2: something that you can read in your own language as well,

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Speaker 2: which is also incredibly helpful.

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Speaker 1: I know it is so tough when you first become

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Speaker 2: You can drown and blog information and Facebook posts and

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Speaker 2: all of that kind of stuff, but all our information

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Speaker 2: and that center of truth and research for safe sleeping

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Speaker 2: in particular definitely comes from the Red Nose Association and

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Speaker 2: SIDS and Kids and.

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Speaker 1: Red Nose Day. And the work that SIDS and kids do.

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Speaker 1: It is so very important, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: Oh, it's amazing since if we think back to when

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Speaker 2: they first started the research and then started putting out

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Speaker 2: the recommendations for how to get babies to sleep safely,

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Speaker 2: since then, we've had a drop of eighty five percent

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Speaker 2: reduction in sid's depths in Australia. So it does work.

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Speaker 2: So that's over ten thousand babies statistically that are alive today.

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Speaker 2: It wouldn't have been if we didn't know all this information.

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Speaker 2: So it shows the importance of research and then communicating

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Speaker 2: that out to all of our parents so we all

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, Allison, I really appreciate you having a chat with

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Speaker 1: us this morning, and I do want to say as well,

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Speaker 1: on this Red Nose Day, that we are thinking of

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Speaker 1: all of those parents who have been in really traumatic

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Speaker 1: and difficult situations where they've lost a baby. I cannot

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Speaker 1: begin to imagine how tough that is. But I'm certainly

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Speaker 1: thinking of all of them, not only today, but you

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Speaker 1: know well every time that they go through those milestones

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Speaker 1: and those difficult situations.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, I can't I kind of agree with you more. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: Alice with them all.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Thank you so very much for having a

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Speaker 2: Have a lovely day you two.

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Speaker 1: That's Allison Jarvis there, the acting Clinical Midwife manager of

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Speaker 1: the Maternity Ward and at Royal Darwin Hospital. And as

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Speaker 1: I said, we know that today is Red Nose Day

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Speaker 1: and Northern Territory Health is encouraging Territory parents to learn

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Speaker 1: those safe sleeping techniques for their babies and toddlers. And

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Speaker 1: we also know that Red Nose Australia provides support through

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Speaker 1: the Bereaved Parent Support Group to Territory parents after they

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Speaker 1: have experienced a still birth or the death of a

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Speaker 1: child or a baby. And as I said, I know

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Speaker 1: that today can be a really well there's so many

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Speaker 1: days that would be really difficult days if you are

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Speaker 1: one of those parents. But we are thinking of you

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Speaker 1: here at Mix one oh four point nine