Probably sick of hearing about it

So, if you are, please forgive me and I'll see you tomorrow.  I just can't live with this idea that so many babies are dying when there is no need.


Insert elevator music here...just in case you are sick of listening to me...

Feel free to stop in tomorrow.  I promise it will be something that will make you smile.


Okay, I was sitting on the front porch with my hubby.  Waiting for the storm to come.  Playing with my new love Instagram (I'm slow, I know).  When I decided to check the paper - bad move.


The headline made my stomach turn and the article made it worse. 

Infant electrocuted after sleeping in bed with mom, another child

Really?  All in one phrase?  Bed sharing and electrocution?  And when you read the article, it is even worse.  The danger level is so high, screaming for a fire inspection.  Had that baby been in a Pack N Play, this would NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!  NEVER!  She would still be among us, waiting to flower to a point where she can discover the world.  UGH!  

Had she called any non-emergency line in the city, my husband's rig would have been the one to come and set up the Pack N Play and help with the education process and that baby girl would still be blossoming.  Her momma never had to leave the house.  

I asked J WHY???  It is all over the news.  There is controversy and scary images.  Press conferences and Sleep Summits.  WHY IS THIS STILL HAPPENING?  His answer was simple, they think it won't happen to them.   It happens to other people's babies, not theirs. What is happening is not working, so there needs to be a fresh idea.

So, N and I came up with a plan for the summer.  We are going create a print campaign to take to the MFD and city Health Commissioner to see if they would work with us, using real mommas of angel babies - no posed pictures - with the idea, "Think it can't happen to you, ask the moms of these angel babies.  That was what they thought, too."  Or something along those lines.  He wants to do a fundraiser for more Pack N Plays.  Education and availability.  I am so proud.  Wish us luck!

Tell Me What to Do!

You can fuss about me all you want on my FB page.  I DON'T CARE!  WE HAVE ANOTHER DEAD BABY FROM CO-SLEEPING!

Police investigating Milwaukee's 10th unsafe sleep death this year   

By Crocker Stephenson of the Journal Sentinel

Nov. 18, 2011 10:56 a.m. 

An infant was found dead Friday morning after spending the night sleeping with an adult, according to police.

The baby is at least the 10th Milwaukee infant to die this year while in an unsafe sleep environment. Seven of those deaths occurred while the infant was sleeping with an adult or another child.

Two babies died after being placed on an unsafe surface or in an unsafe position.

Another died while sleeping with his sister and his grandmother, Lisa Humphrey, who has been charged with giving the infant a mixture of morphine and oxycodone.

Two of the co-sleeping deaths have occurred since Nov. 9, when city officials vowed to reduce Milwaukee's infant mortality rate by 10%.

Officials also unveiled what has since become a controversial advertisment campaign that pictures a baby sleeping in an adult bed, a large knife tucked in the covers nearby.

"Your baby sleeping with you can be just as dangerous," the ad says.

The American Academy of Pediatrics says the safest way for babies to sleep is alone, on their backs, in a crib free of pillows, blankets, toys and other soft objects.

I can tell you right where this was taken.

Tell me to read up on safe bed sharing.  Tell me how RIDICULOUS I am being.  Tell me how ignorant I am. And I will tell you we lost another life.  

Tell me what to do.  Tell me how to fix this epidemic.  IT IS MAKING ME SICK! 

I can't go door to door and I don't think that would do it if I could.  Shock and awe ads have people talking, but they are all bickering like a bunch of clucking hens.  Instead of name calling, HELP!  SOLUTIONS PEOPLE, SOLUTIONS.  Real live action  plans. Education is a powerful tool, YEAH, I get it (I am a teacher, remember), but how do we educate??  Read this pamphlet?  Yeah, not gonna do it.  Lecture??  Yeah, that simply causes people to tune you out and then your message is totally lost. Trust me, we as high school teachers see it more than we'd like and have to remind ourselves. No more theoretical.  No more this doctor says I am right and you are wrong.  NO MORE.  


No more lost babies.  No more lost futures.  No more broken hearts.  No more Empty Cradles.