Red Nose Day

It's every parent's worst nightmare and it happened to Canberra's Bonnie Carter not once, not twice, but no fewer than…

It’s still estimated that more than a third of new parents don’t know how to safely sleep their baby. We didn’t want anyone else to ever feel our pain.” Since the first Red Nose Day in 1988, it has sparked a global movement and catalysed research into Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), or finding out why babies die suddenly in their sleep. She and her husband Steve had a house and decided they were ready to fill it with the joy of little ones. “We support families who lose a child up to the age of 18.” They were assured Grace’s condition was a freak occurrence. “We had an amazing counsellor who met with us regularly and we really developed a personal connection with her,” Bonnie says. A year later, they tried again. Steve and Bonnie felt they had to do something to “be able to live and thrive as a couple again”. “We were faced with a whole raft of emotions,” Bonnie says. “Everything was going perfectly – we could see from the scans that she had a perfect heart,” Bonnie says. “It was really hard, but surprisingly peaceful because we knew Grace was out of pain and didn’t have to live a life of suffering,” Bonnie says.

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You can lean on us whenever you need to." I think it was the day we had to leave him." "People often tell Michael and I, 'you're so strong, you're so brave'. And I say, 'No. We are the strength of other people, we are the strength of the Red Nose families.'" "Then we came home, and we had a nursery and we had baby things, and then we became the people whose baby died," she said. "The mums and the dads and the siblings of the little people who are with Finley, those people are phenomenal, and they will get you through this," Dimity said. "I used the bathroom and started bleeding, a lot," she said.

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She added that the easiest way to become involved with Red Nose Australia is to make a donation, while the easiest way to find upcoming events was to check through the organisation’s website. “The research component has been the foundation on which the organisation has been built,” Ms Ludski said. “The research that is being looked at is the role that particular enzymes may play in putting a baby at greater risk of SIDS,” Ms Ludski said.

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Red Nose works to reduce sudden infant deaths, supporting families who have been impacted by the death of a baby or child. Before the pandemic they would do chocolate drives, and even hosted big fundraiser events in the past. That’s where Red Nose provided really amazing support for us.”