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CUT THE CORD
Below are some articles of children that have died or damaged for life, after having become entangled in blind or curtain cords.
What is needed is publicity to highlight the danger in the baby's room , publicity helped by say, a high profile top rating radio star, who also has a high rating spot on TV, who with his profile could I'm sure get The Daily Telegraph on board to get a "cut the cord" campaign up and running.
Imagine the impact on mothers who listen and watch him highlight the danger of these cords above cots or beds.
Death or life long brain damage that could be avoided by a simple snip of sissors
Many new fathers nowadays cut the cord at the birth of their newborn , what is more important I think, is that other cords need to be cut to ensure their precious baby doesn't end up like the poor kids in the articles below.
A parent (or grandparent's ) worst nightmare
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2014/02/05/06/09/baby-dies-after-blind-cord-accident
Emergency services were called to a house in Quakers Hill about 6.25pm (AEDT) on Tuesday after the toddler was found unconscious in her cot.
She was taken to Westmead Hospital in a critical condition and later died.
A post mortem examination will be held to determine the cause of death, but police say initial investigations suggest the child became entangled in a blind
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Arthur Winfield was left brain-damaged after the accident at his home in Markyate, Herts, on 5 January. He died later in Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Hertfordshire Coroner Edward Thomas recorded a verdict of accidental death.
It came five months after Emily Warner, also two, suffered a similar accident at her Hertfordshire home last August.
She died in December.
Arthur Winfield was left brain-damaged after the accident at his home in Markyate, Herts, on 5 January. He died later in Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Hertfordshire Coroner Edward Thomas recorded a verdict of accidental death.
It came five months after Emily Warner, also two, suffered a similar accident at her Hertfordshire home last August.
She died in December.
Arthur Winfield was left brain-damaged after the accident at his home in Markyate, Herts, on 5 January. He died later in Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Hertfordshire Coroner Edward Thomas recorded a verdict of accidental death.
It came five months after Emily Warner, also two, suffered a similar accident at her Hertfordshire home last August.
She died in December.
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TODDLER DIES IN HORNSBY
A two-year-old boy is dead after police say he got tangled in cords from window blinds.
Police say it happened around 7:45 p.m. at a home on Water in South St. Louis. Investigators say the two-year-old climbed up into the windows of his bedroom and got tangled up in a long nylon cord from the window blinds.
Dangerous not only to toddlers
Freak accident. A 6-year-old girl is dead after being hung in her own home. According to police, cords attached to the blinds somehow got wrapped around her neck.
And many more examples of this needless tragedy;
Even if only one life is saved or lifelong medical problems to a precious child is avoided by a "cut the cord campaign" it would be worthwhile.
