On the 21st of April, 2024, we lost our sweet girl, Ellsie, to SIDS. She was completely healthy and the happiest little girl you would ever meet. We knew SIDS existed but never thought it would happen to us. We want to do as much as we can to help the research for SIDS in memory of our princess Ellsie.

We are inspired by the work River's Gift do in Stamping Out SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). The impact they make in funding vital SIDS research, delivering infant safe sleep education and advocating for the infants and families affected by SIDS, is incredible. River's Gift are Australia's leading SIDS research funding organisation.

SIDS is still one of the largest causes of death of children aged between 1 month and 12 months of age. At River’s Gift, as Australia’s solely SIDS focused charity, we’re dedicated to funding world leading scientific research, providing safe sleep education, ‘Uniting’ SIDS families and raising awareness of this devastating syndrome.

River's Gift was established in November 2011 by Karl Waddell and Alex Hamilton, these two devastated yet focused and determined parents were searching for answers surrounding the sudden and unexpected death of their healthy baby boy, their first child, River. River passed away in his sleep at just 128 days of age, with no specific cause of death established after a thorough forensic investigation. River’s death was classified as a SIDS incident. In Australia each and every year, over 100 babies still lose their lives suddenly and unexpectedly in sleep. 

Please support River's Gift's work by donating to our CrowdRaiser, as I know they will appreciate every cent received. And we will be very grateful for your contribution too!

Also, I would be very grateful for you to share the link to this CrowdRaiser page to your friends and family. The more people who can help the better!

Thank you