Today, many parents I know complain about the difficulty in having their babies comply with the government's program. Parenthood is difficult enough without the added pressure of attempting to re-design a baby's natural sleep configuration. And if we can determine what is exactly the cause of SIDS, then perhaps we can quit trying to re-configure our infants' sleeping habits. I knew from discussing with Dr. Ron Harper of the UCLA Brain Research Laboratory that he thought it was likely that an anaphylactic shock was present in a significant number of SIDS cases. But this theory poses problems of its own.
Anaphylactic shock is a life-threatening response to an allergin.
I had suffered such an experience myself at the age of nine months when given a shot of penicillin for some minor health problem. The doctor who administered the shot then administered a remedy, and I survived. A soon as I undertook my first peek into the vaccination situation, I was awestruck and aware that here was a missing piece of the puzzle. There were pages of Web sites detailing little babies whose lives were brought to an abrupt end by vaccination. And it is assumed that among the population of babies who appear to be unaffected by vaccines, many may have experienced the vaccine exposure as an initiating event.