Babies To Sids example essay topic

Good morning members of the bored, and thankyou for inviting me to this bored meeting to present my documentary proposal. The topic of my documentary is SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome or 'crib death'. SIDS is the sudden unexpected deaths of an infant under the age of one year. Most SIDS deaths occur when the child is between one and four months old. And the awareness of SIDS is minimal in young parents-to-be. By presenting this documentary my team and I are aiming to promote SIDS and in turn minimise the deaths caused by SIDS.

In the late 1980's, investigator realized that it was not necessary to understand the basic underlying cause or causes of SIDS in order to do something about it. For there is mounting evidence suggesting that certain factor such as sleeping positions, cigarette smoke exposure and use of potentially hazardous bedding materials can contribute to the risk of SIDS related deaths. And since the medical community tell parents why their babies die, they often blame themselves or other innocent people. This often leads to the parents requiring special emotional support and counselling. For the introduction to my documentary the camera will pass though the maternity ward with mothers nursing their babies while the title appears on screen 'SIDS' underneath the title 'How much do you know?'. The camera shot with then change to the narrator, a softly spoken female for a sympathetic motherly feel, walking towards the camera though a hospital nursing room.

Saying, "Imagine you " re a new parent. You walk into a freshly painted nursery, which you painted yourself to check on you " re beautiful baby. And you " re child is dead". She then continues to talk about why your baby is dead, and how hundreds of parents over Australia have to deal with this exact situation each year. But they aren't imagining it. An interview will then be conducted of parents who have lost children to SIDS.

The first and main interviewee is Val the mother of Spenser a baby boy who died on the 22nd of August 1987 when he only 4 and a half months old. The camera starts to zoom in on Val as she starts talking "It still hurts when I think of him. I can't help but wonder what sports he would have enjoyed". Spenser would have been 16 in March this year. An interview with Spenser's Dad and older brother Zac will then be conducted and an interview with 2 other families to show how it effects different people.

A doctor will then be interviewed to explain the known medical reasons that are known and talk about the steps that can be put in place to try and prevent SIDS. An interview with a counsellor dealing with families who have lost babies to SIDS will be conducted. The counsellor will explain the grief the parent and siblings deal with when they lose a baby to SIDS. And to conclude my documentary still photographs of the babies who's parents were interviewed will be shown while Val says "when Spenser died so long ago, I said I would always remember his laugh, but I can't remember how it sounded anymore.

This realization makes me very sad because memories are all I have left of him, and I'm losing those too. But when I'm sad, it makes me feel better to know that someday I'm going to see him... in heaven". Soft sad music and emotional language will be used throughout the documentary to assist in the tagging of the heart strings. SIDS is a very serious condition and is the cause of most the infant deaths of infants between the age of one and four months.

And even though the amount of deaths as fallen from the late 1980's to now there are still hundreds of babies dyeing of SIDS each year in Australia alone. As the graph shows. The graph also shows that males are more prone to SIDS then females, the reasons of this is unknown. Just as the reason perfectly healthy babies die is unknown.

Between 1982 and 1996, there were almost 30,000 infant deaths in Australia, of which about 5,500 were due to SIDS. For the amount of children this kills each year not enough people are aware of the condition. And if they are aware the common 'it won't happen to me' occurs. People need to know more about the condition and more about the ways to prevent it. And the way of doing this is to put it on television. This particular topic will attract a enormous amount of viewers and is low on budget.

This documentary wouldn't cost more then $600 000 to make, which is a very small amount considering the lives it might help save. I am presenting this proposal to you for you to fund and show because it will attract a large amount of viewers, promote research into the reasons these infants die and aware the public of this condition of which hundreds of babies lose there lives each year. $600 000 is a very small price to pay for a human life. Thankyou.