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Katie Woolf spoke with RDH Acting Clinical Midwife Manager of Maternity Alison Jarvis · 360 with Katie Woolf

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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: about what kind of like what kind of sleeping bag
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  Speaker 2: should I buy? Or what should I sleep my baby in?
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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 1: a parent, and even when you're about to become a parent,
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  Speaker 1: there's so much information out there and sometimes you just
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly who to take your info from or
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  Speaker 1: all where to get it. As well.
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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 2: know whan to do the rioting and look after their babies.
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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 1: chat with us this morning and we really appreciate it.
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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